Thread: New version == 8.0
Folks, After some discussion on Hackers and Core, we've decided to name the upcoming version of PostgreSQL 8.0.0. This is for a couple of reasons: 1) The volume of changes since 7.0 make this barely recognizable as the same ORDBMS as we had in 1998. 2) It's hoped that the major version number increase will make users extra cautious about upgrading production products to this version; given the volume of new features, we're likely to have more bugs and incompatibilities than usual. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
Not to mention that it signals that something major is going on too. Josh Berkus wrote: >Folks, > >After some discussion on Hackers and Core, we've decided to name the upcoming >version of PostgreSQL 8.0.0. This is for a couple of reasons: > >1) The volume of changes since 7.0 make this barely recognizable as the same >ORDBMS as we had in 1998. > >2) It's hoped that the major version number increase will make users extra >cautious about upgrading production products to this version; given the >volume of new features, we're likely to have more bugs and incompatibilities >than usual. > > >
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
>
> After some discussion on Hackers and Core, we've decided to name the upcoming
> version of PostgreSQL 8.0.0. This is for a couple of reasons:
>
> 1) The volume of changes since 7.0 make this barely recognizable as the same
> ORDBMS as we had in 1998.
>
> 2) It's hoped that the major version number increase will make users extra
> cautious about upgrading production products to this version; given the
> volume of new features, we're likely to have more bugs and incompatibilities
> than usual.
Not to mention it's tough enough spitting out PostgreSQL but then add
seven point four point 3 ... to the end of that and I'm slobbering all
over myself. (Well a couple of pints may be contributing to the
slobbering. :-)
Eight will make it much easier and less embarrassing!
Rod
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