Re: Wild idea: 9.0?

[usleepless(at)gmail(dot)com]

Josh, List,

On 4/23/07, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> Hackers,
>
> I was thinking about the upcoming release on my 32-hour epic airplane ordeal,
> and realizing that it changes PostgreSQL in a lot of ways.  Between major
> improvements to performance, major changes to the file format, and changes to
> implicit conversions breaking backwards compatibility, our new ability to
> more-or-less stick to deadlines ...
>
> ... should this be 9.0 instead of 8.3?
>
> 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.  And that some
> of our more radical features in the new version could have some rough edges.

as a casual user, only subscribed to this list, i think you should
really consider it.

a bunch of problems due toa  minor-release-number upgrade would come
as a suprise.

a major-release-number- upgrade i would investigate more thorough.

regards,

usleep