[HACKERS] Stamping of 8.4

2008-02-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom did most of the 8.4 stamping and I incremented the library minor version numbers. I have updated the library bump wording in RELEASE_CHANGES: o Bump minor library versions, major if appropriate (see below) I also updated this item description: o update config.guess and

Re: [HACKERS] Stamping of 8.4

2008-02-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Sorry, please ignore me. I got start of beta confused with start of development. --- Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom did most of the 8.4 stamping and I incremented the library minor version numbers. I have updated the library

Re: [HACKERS] Stamping of 8.4

2008-02-13 Thread Tom Lane
Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Minor version bump is done unconditionally for each release cycle. This isn't a *huge* deal, but I'm not sure it's actually appropriate. We should bump the minor version when we actually add something new to the

Re: [HACKERS] Stamping of 8.4

2008-02-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom did most of the 8.4 stamping and I incremented the library minor version numbers. I have updated the library bump wording in RELEASE_CHANGES: o Bump minor library versions, major if appropriate (see below) I admit I am surprised

Re: [HACKERS] Stamping of 8.4

2008-02-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom did most of the 8.4 stamping and I incremented the library minor version numbers. I have updated the library bump wording in RELEASE_CHANGES: o Bump minor library versions, major if appropriate (see below) I admit I am surprised by the library bump. We

Re: [HACKERS] Stamping of 8.4

2008-02-13 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I admit I am surprised by the library bump. We haven't done anything to the libraries yet, so why bump the versions? Minor version bump is done unconditionally for each release cycle. Major version bump is as-needed (ABI break).

Re: [HACKERS] Stamping of 8.4

2008-02-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I admit I am surprised by the library bump. We haven't done anything to the libraries yet, so why bump the versions? Minor version bump is done unconditionally for each release cycle. Oh, I see. I will update RELEASE_CHANGES to

Re: [HACKERS] Stamping of 8.4

2008-02-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I admit I am surprised by the library bump. We haven't done anything to the libraries yet, so why bump the versions? Minor version bump is done unconditionally for each release cycle. Oh, I see. I

Re: [HACKERS] Stamping of 8.4

2008-02-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I admit I am surprised by the library bump. We haven't done anything to the libraries yet, so why bump the versions? Minor version bump is done unconditionally for each release cycle. This isn't a *huge* deal,

Re: [HACKERS] Stamping of 8.4

2008-02-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Stephen Frost wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. * Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I admit I am surprised by the library bump. We haven't done anything to the libraries yet, so why bump the versions? Minor version bump is done

Re: [HACKERS] Stamping of 8.4

2008-02-13 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen Frost wrote: We should bump the minor version when we actually add something new to the library (which is probably just about every time we do a major version, but still). The problem is the risk of forgetting during development. When we break

Re: [HACKERS] Stamping of 8.4

2008-02-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I admit I am surprised by the library bump. We haven't done anything to the libraries yet, so why bump the versions? Minor version bump is done unconditionally for each release

Re: [HACKERS] Stamping of 8.4

2008-02-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen Frost wrote: We should bump the minor version when we actually add something new to the library (which is probably just about every time we do a major version, but still). The problem is the risk of forgetting during