Re: Version Numbering

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:48:12AM -0700, David Wheeler wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2010, at 11:47 AM, David Fetter wrote:
>
> >> No idea what you mean by that, but generally it's a bad idea to
> >> switch from dotted-integer version numbers and numeric version
> >> numbers. See Perl (Quel désastre!).
> >
> > I'm thinking that after 9.0, the first release of the next major
> > version should be 10.0, and the one after that, 11.0, etc., etc.
>
> Oh. Good luck with that. I disagree, FWIW.
>
> > The current system give people the completely false impression
> > that 7.0 and 7.4 are somehow similar.
>
> On what planet?

"We're using Postgre 8"

See also all the flocks of tools that claim to support "Postgres 8"

Cheers,
David.
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