On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I agree that search and replace isn't that hard, but I don't find the
>> proposed construction awkward, and we have various uses of it in the
>> docs already. Actually the COPY one is not quite clear whether it
>> means <= 7.3 or < 7.3. I think we're just aiming for consistency here
>> as much as anything.
>
> Well, the problem is that "<= 8.4" is confusing as to whether it
> includes 8.4.n. You and I know that it does because we know we
> don't make feature changes in minor releases, but this is not
> necessarily obvious to everyone. "< 8.5" is much less ambiguous.
Ah. I would not have considered that, but it does make sense.
...Robert
