From: David Garamond Sent: Sat 6/5/2004 9:28 AM Cc: postgresql advocacy; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?
Assuming 1 year between major releases (7.3.0 -> 7.4.0 = +- 1 year), then we have 7.5-9.9 = 26 years = up until +- jul 2030. if we skip to 8.0 now, then we have up until 2023.
Hi Dave,
I might be missing the point, but why can't we go to double figures? MS Office has, HP-UX has, OS-X, Norton AV has, Madrake Linux has...
Of course we can, I didn't say we can't. But double digits are sometimes undesirable because it can break some things. For example, a simple shell or Perl script might try to compare the version of two data directories by comparing the content of PG_VERSION stringwise. It then concludes that 7.10 is smaller than 7.4.
Granted, the script itself is faulty, but since some other OS projects (like Ruby, with the same x.y.z numbering) do guarantee they never will have double digits in version number component than people might think the same too and thus the habit of stringwise version comparison continues.
-- dave
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