| From: | Robert Bernier <robert(dot)bernier5(at)sympatico(dot)ca> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)PostgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: New version == 8.0 |
| Date: | 2004-08-03 15:22:50 |
| Message-ID: | 410FADCA.5010309@sympatico.ca |
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Not to mention that it signals that something major is going on too.
Josh Berkus wrote:
>Folks,
>
>After some discussion on Hackers and Core, we've decided to name the upcoming
>version of PostgreSQL 8.0.0. This is for a couple of reasons:
>
>1) The volume of changes since 7.0 make this barely recognizable as the same
>ORDBMS as we had in 1998.
>
>2) It's hoped that the major version number increase will make users extra
>cautious about upgrading production products to this version; given the
>volume of new features, we're likely to have more bugs and incompatibilities
>than usual.
>
>
>
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