Re: Version Numbering -- The great debate - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: Version Numbering -- The great debate
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Msg-id 87vfg2wiie.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org
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In response to Re: Version Numbering -- The great debate  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Huh?  That is exactly counter to most people's expectations about
> version numbering.  N.0 is the unstable release, N.1 is the one
> with some bugs shaken out.  If we release a 7.5 people will expect
> it to be less buggy than 7.4, and I'm not sure we can promise that.

I agree with this, and from my non-authoritative viewpoint as a user
and rabid advocate, I think we should be going with 8.0 for this
release as well.  :)

-Doug
-- 
Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.  --T. J. Jackson, 1863


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