Re: Version Numbering

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Version Numbering
Date: 2010-08-20 22:08:10
Message-ID: AANLkTinOskgF25sGnWGd9xpVObCJmqxhR1zVrFXG=D93@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> In any case those are all marketing brand names. The actual releases
>> do in fact have real version numbers and no, they aren't all minor
>> releases. Oracle 8i was 8.1.x which was indeed a major release over
>> 8.0.
>>
>
> Maybe we can give marketing brand names to every new version so people
> is not confused by numbers...

I can't tell whether you're being sarcastic or not. The whole point of
those marketing names *is* to confuse users.

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greg

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