Re: [HACKERS] Wild idea: 9.0?

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> ... should this be 9.0 instead of 8.3?  

No.  This is mere version-number-inflation.

Eyeing the patch queue and wondering how much of it is really going to
get in, I'm not sure that eight point two and a half wouldn't be a more
appropriate name.  It's been a short devel cycle and one almost entirely
focused on performance, not user-visible features.

> Seems like it'd be both an annoucement of how far we've come, as well as a 
> warning to users that the 8.2-->9.0 upgrade could be painful.

Why would you think that?

			regards, tom lane