Re: [HACKERS] Wild idea: 9.0?

2007-04-23 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > Eyeing the patch queue and wondering how much of it is really going to > get in, I'm not sure that eight point two and a half wouldn't be a more > appropriate name. It's been a short devel cycle and one almost entirely > focused on performance, not user-visible features. Ah, in my enthusi

Re: [HACKERS] Wild idea: 9.0?

2007-04-23 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... should this be 9.0 instead of 8.3? No. This is mere version-number-inflation. Eyeing the patch queue and wondering how much of it is really going to get in, I'm not sure that eight point two and a half wouldn't be a more appropriate name. It's bee

Re: [HACKERS] Wild idea: 9.0?

2007-04-23 Thread August Zajonc
Josh Berkus wrote: Between major improvements to performance, major changes to the file format, and changes to implicit conversions breaking backwards compatibility, our new ability to more-or-less stick to deadlines ... ... should this be 9.0 instead of 8.3? Seems like it'd be both an ann

[HACKERS] Wild idea: 9.0?

2007-04-23 Thread Josh Berkus
Hackers, I was thinking about the upcoming release on my 32-hour epic airplane ordeal, and realizing that it changes PostgreSQL in a lot of ways. Between major improvements to performance, major changes to the file format, and changes to implicit conversions breaking backwards compatibility, o