Re: [HACKERS] Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am

2002-07-06 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On July 5, 2002 10:27 am, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, the big change is such that will, at least as far as I'm understanding it, break pretty much every front-end applicaiton ... Only those that

Re: [HACKERS] Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am

2002-07-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Curt Sampson wrote: While there are big changes between 7.2 and the next release, they aren't really any bigger than others during the 7.x series. I don't really feel that the next release is worth an 8.0 rather than a 7.3. But this is just an opinion; it's not something

Re: [HACKERS] Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am

2002-07-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, the big change is such that will, at least as far as I'm understanding it, break pretty much every front-end applicaiton ... Only those that inspect system catalogs --- I'm not sure what percentage

Re: [HACKERS] Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am being interviewed by OReilly )

2002-07-05 Thread Tom Lane
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, the big change is such that will, at least as far as I'm understanding it, break pretty much every front-end applicaiton ... Only those that inspect system catalogs --- I'm not sure what percentage that is, but surely it's not pretty much

Re: [HACKERS] Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am

2002-07-05 Thread Thomas Lockhart
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

Re: [HACKERS] Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am

2002-07-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
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.

Re: [HACKERS] Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am

2002-07-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, the big change is such that will, at least as far as I'm understanding it, break pretty much every front-end applicaiton ... Only those that inspect system catalogs ---

Re: [HACKERS] Should next release by 8.0 (Was: Re: [GENERAL] I am

2002-07-05 Thread Alessio Bragadini
In my book, schema support is a big thing, leading to rethink a lot of database organization and such. PostgreSQL 8 would stress this importance. -- Alessio F. Bragadini[EMAIL PROTECTED] APL Financial Services http://village.albourne.com Nicosia, Cyprus