Ken Johanson wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>>> PG uses a different versioning system than this one?:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning#Numeric
>>>
>>> Or do you mean the changes are not minor? :-)
>>
>> Yes, we use the one stated on our site, not wikipedia ;)
>>
>> See: http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning
>>
>
>
> Thank you, I understand now.
>
> "A major release is numbered by increasing either the first or second
> part of the version number, e.g. 8.1 to 8.2."
Good.
That's not to say that your concerns aren't valid, btw. To answer your
original question, I haven't heard of a way to make it act like 8.2 wrt
the casting, because most people feel it's better to fix the issues in
the application than to apply band-aid.
And yes, similar things may happen for 8.4, but there's nothing out
there yet that we *know* will make such a change.
//Magnus
