Re: Version Numbering - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Version Numbering
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Msg-id 22989.1282410746@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Version Numbering  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Re: Version Numbering
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> PostgreSQL is a user space project. Yes we have a solid core of -hackers
> but our wider use is a place where hackers don't exist. User space
> developers do. I.e; PHP people. 

This is utter nonsense.  We're a database, not a desktop.
People who even know what a database is, let alone program one,
are sufficiently geeky to be aware of the usual conventions for
software version numbering.  Or at least to RTFM if they don't.
        regards, tom lane


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