Re: Version Numbering

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, "Sergio A(dot) Kessler" <sergiokessler(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Version Numbering
Date: 2010-08-21 17:12:26
Message-ID: 22989.1282410746@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> PostgreSQL is a user space project. Yes we have a solid core of -hackers
> but our wider use is a place where hackers don't exist. User space
> developers do. I.e; PHP people.

This is utter nonsense. We're a database, not a desktop.
People who even know what a database is, let alone program one,
are sufficiently geeky to be aware of the usual conventions for
software version numbering. Or at least to RTFM if they don't.

regards, tom lane

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