Re: Not 7.5, but 8.0 ? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?
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In response to Re: Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?  (Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
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Christopher Browne wrote:

> Oops! josh@agliodbs.com (Josh Berkus) was seen spray-painting on a wall:
>> Given all that, don't people think it's time to jump to 8.0?  Seems
>> like even 7.4 is hardly recognizable as the same database as 7.0.
>
> If wishes were fishes...  Shouldn't we see what interesting features
> actually _do_ make it in?
>
> If Win32 support does get ready, and we get recursive queries (I'll
> point out different TODO items :-)) and Slony-1, PITR, and cache
> improvements make it in, then perhaps it's time to call it 8.0.  A
> "cvs update -Pd" doesn't get me that yet, so it seems early.
>
> I'd _almost_ buy the story that 7.4 should have been called 8.0,
> although that _didn't_ happen because it 'just missed' PITR and Win32.
>
> The amusing approach would be to jump straight to 8.1 :-).

The real fun would be to let it start as 8, then 8.1 and so on ...


Jan

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