| From: | "Sander Steffann" <sander(at)steffann(dot)nl> |
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| To: | "Thomas Lockhart" <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Curt Sampson" <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Andrew Sullivan" <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am |
| Date: | 2002-07-05 22:51:55 |
| Message-ID: | 004a01c22476$8ffeb350$64c8a8c0@balefire10ww |
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Hi!
> I've always thought of our release numbering as having "themes". The 6.x
> series took Postgres from interesting but buggy to a solid system, with
> a clear path to additional capabilities. The 7.x series fleshes out SQL
> standards compliance and rationalizes the O-R features, as well as adds
> to robustness and speed with WAL etc. And the 8.x series would enable
> Postgres to extend to distributed systems etc.
This sounds very good to me. I get the feeling sometimes that software
projects just increase the major version number to 'sound interesting'. I
don't think that PostgreSQL needs that anymore. A modest numbering policy
might even give it a 'stable' feeling...
Sander.
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