Kaare Rasmussen <kar@webline.dk> writes:
> This is big, I admit but why going to 7.0 for this? Or is it because
> it's long overdue (MSVC and stuff)?
A number of people thought 6.5 should have been called 7.0 because of
MVCC. A number of other people thought that this release should be 6.6,
and the next one (which should have outer joins and much better VIEWs
thanks to a redesigned querytree representation) should be 7.0.
I think it's kind of a compromise ;-).
OTOH, if you look less at bullet points on a feature list and more at
reliability and quality of implementation, there's plenty of material
to argue that this indeed deserves to be 7.0. I think we have made
a quantum jump in our ability to understand and improve the Berkeley
code over the past year --- at least I have, maybe I shouldn't speak
for the other developers. There have been some pretty significant
improvements under-the-hood, and I think those are going to translate
directly into a more reliable system.
regards, tom lane
