2011/2/14 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > "David E. Wheeler" <da...@kineticode.com> writes: >> On Feb 14, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>>> I'm not convinced. There was nothing in that discussion why any >>>> particular character would have to be allowed in a version number. > >>> Well, there's already a counterexample in the current contrib stuff: >>> uuid-ossp. We could rename that to uuid_ossp of course, but it's >>> not clear to me that there's consensus for forbidding dashes here.
why do we care if there is a dash in the middle of a text where there are no numbers ? > >> I'd be fine if commas were used instead. > > Commas do not seem like an improvement to me at all --- they are widely > used as list separators. > > I guess the real question is what's Peter's concrete objection to the > double-dash method? I have to admit that I am a bit surprised by this -- stuff too. An objection might be completely non-technical, but advocacy : "what this funny new name convention those PostgreSQL folks did invent ?!" -- Cédric Villemain 2ndQuadrant http://2ndQuadrant.fr/ PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers