On Friday 22. January 2010 01.22.09 Tom Lane wrote: > "Larry Rosenman" <l...@lerctr.org> writes: > > On Thu, January 21, 2010 5:53 pm, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote: > >> Care to shed some light on what features (yes, we users care about > >> features) warrant this major version-bump? Is there a link somewhere? > > > AFAIR, it was stated if Hot Standby AND Streaming Replication hit the > > tree, the release number would go to 9.0. > > Yeah. The question of "when do we call it 9.0" has come up multiple > times over the past few release cycles, and "when we get built-in > replication" has always been one of the more popular answers. If HS+SR > aren't enough to justify a major version bump, I'm not sure what would be. > > The other bit of rationale for this is that HS+SR are likely to induce a > certain amount of, um, instability. Labeling the release with a dot-oh > version number will help to set people's expectations about that. For > comparison's sake, one of the main reasons for calling 8.0 8.0 was the > native Windows port, and it certainly took a while for that to settle > down.
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