From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Have you heard? It's 8.0 ... |
Date: | 2004-08-04 01:16:50 |
Message-ID: | 200408040116.i741Go801086@candle.pha.pa.us |
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One issue is that we now have to update the PG_VERSION file in /data
(via configure.in) so we will be forcing an initdb when we make the
change.
Should we go ahead and make these changes now?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> The recent discussion on -hackers was leaning strongly to the idea that
> our upcoming release should be called 8.0 not 7.5, and after some
> small private argument the core committee agrees. We have a number of
> new features that warrant a major version bump (savepoints, PITR, native
> Windows port --- IMHO any one of those would do it). What may be even
> more to the point, we have enough internal changes in support of these
> things that we cannot honestly say to the world that this release will
> be more stable than the last one. Truth-in-advertising mandates that
> we call this an N.0 release, not an N.5 release. There are people out
> there who will avoid an N.0 release, and in all honesty we cannot tell
> them they shouldn't avoid this one.
>
> Accordingly, it's hereby decreed that PG-next will be PG 8.0.
> [ now, where did I put that puff of white smoke? ]
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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