On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Greg Stark <gsst...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Sergio A. Kessler > <sergiokess...@gmail.com> wrote: >> on every single planet of the universe, except the one called >> "postgrearth", whose inhabitants breathe sql and eat messages from >> postgresql mailing lists... :-) >> >> most people I know, think 8.1 is just 8.0 with some fixes... > > Really? is Linux 2.6 just 2.5 with some fixes? Glibc 2.Was Windows 3.5 > just 3.4 with some fixes? Gnome 2.28 just 2.27 with some fixes?
really !, they don't have *any* idea of the version of the kernel, they know about redhat 4, redhat 5 and so on... glibc ? what is that ? is not something they use... :-) sure, we know better, but the common guy in the computer field, does not read every mailing list on earth... > In fact perusing dpkg -l output the *only* software package I find > that bumps the major version every single release is Emacs. It stands > out as an outlier as soon as you say version 23 -- and that was > despite a hiatus when version 18.59 was the newest release for years. imho, emacs does it rigth... regards, /sak -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
