| From: | Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Version Numbering |
| Date: | 2010-08-20 21:22:00 |
| Message-ID: | 20100820212200.GB26180@oak.highrise.ca |
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* Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> [100820 17:10]:
> BTW, 9.0.0 is also less than 9.0.0.anything ... so sticking another dot
> in there wouldn't help.
Debian's packaging versions "work around" this with the special ~
character, which they define as sorting *before* nothing, meaning
8.4~beta1 < 8.4 < 8.4.0 < 8.4extra
See the deb-version man page for details, a nice convinenct, but yes, a
special cased rule...
But at least it's wildly used ;-)
a.
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