Re: [HACKERS] Version Numbering -- The great debate

[Joshua D. Drake]

Hello, Version 7.5 is as close to a major release as I have seen in the almost 9 years I have been using PostgreSQL. This release brings about a lot of "enterprise" features that have been holding back PostgreSQL in a big way for for a long time. All of my serious customers; potential, existing and past has all at one point or another requested most if not all of the features being released onto the world with 7.5. In fact the only ones that I can think of off the top of my head that isn't in the current list of availables is table partitioning and to a lesser extent two phase commit. This release definately deserves a major version jump. If it were up to me it would be more than one (I would call it 10h for obvious reasons. O.k. the h is a joke but I am serious about the 10) just from a marketing standpoint. I could argue a major version jump just from the fact that we finally have a port to the most used operating system (regardless if that is good or bad) in the world. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Tom Lane wrote: Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Even if Savepoints don't make it, we'll still have: Savepoints are in, as is exception-trapping in functions (at least plpgsql, the other PLs are on their own :-(). Some other major improvements you didn't mention: Cross-datatype comparisons are indexable (at least for common combinations); this solves a huge performance gotcha Dependency-aware pg_dump Much more complete support for rowtype operations This is more features worth mentioning than we've ever had in a single release before -- and if you consider several add-ons which have been implemented/improved at the same time (Slony, PL/Java, etc.) it's even more momentous. If this isn't 8.0, then what will be? I tend to agree, and was about to bring up the point myself. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-667-4564 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.commandprompt.com PostgreSQL Replicator -- production quality replication for PostgreSQL