Re: Version Numbering - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Version Numbering
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In response to Re: Version Numbering  (Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> In any case those are all marketing brand names. The actual releases
>> do in fact have real version numbers and no, they aren't all minor
>> releases. Oracle 8i was 8.1.x which was indeed a major release over
>> 8.0.
>>
>
> Maybe we can give marketing brand names to every new version so people
> is not confused by numbers...

I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic or not. The whole point of
those marketing names *is* to confuse users.




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greg


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