Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> It makes sense to store things separately when they have a semantic
> difference. What we call "major" is the first two digits and dot. We
> call "minor" to the third digit, and that's all. We don't have
> "revisions". This is how it has ever been and we even document it as
> such. Offering the first two digits separately would be a mistake
> because it causes confusion over what's significant -- the first digit
> by itself is not significant.
While I agree with this position, ISTM that an easy compromise is
available: put both formats into the data.
regards, tom lane
