Re: [HACKERS] New version number 6.6 or 7.0

On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> > Can I have votes on what people want the next version number to be?
> > We have to brand the release when we start development(PG_VERSION
> > file). 6.5 probably should have been called 7.0, but we had already
> > committed to 6.5.
>
> We've been making pretty steady progress over the last few releases.
> I'd suggest that a bump to 7.0 should happen when we've accumulated
> most of the fixes/improvements from the "hot list". We've worked
> through most of those; here are the ones I'd like to see at or before
> a 7.0 release:
>
> o implement outer joins
> o merge date/time types and deprecate the old 4-byte ones

My opinion is that MVCC should have jump'd us to 7.0 in the first
place...

IMHO, release for October should be v7.0 ... if the above two get done,
great, if not, no probs...

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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