On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Thomas Lockhart wrote: > > Actually, the "big" change is such that will, at least as far as I'm > > understanding it, break pretty much every front-end applicaiton ... which, > > I'm guessing, is pretty major, no? :) > > I've always thought of our release numbering as having "themes". The 6.x > series took Postgres from interesting but buggy to a solid system, with > a clear path to additional capabilities. The 7.x series fleshes out SQL > standards compliance and rationalizes the O-R features, as well as adds > to robustness and speed with WAL etc. And the 8.x series would enable > Postgres to extend to distributed systems etc., quite likely having some > fundamental restructuring of the way we handle sources of data (remember > our discussions a couple years ago regarding "tuple sources"?). > > So I feel that bumping to 8.x just for schemas is not necessary. I > *like* the idea of having more than one or two releases in a series, and > would be very happy to see a 7.3 released.
Seems I'm the only one for 8.x, so 7.3 it is :) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
