Re: [HACKERS] Wild idea: 9.0?
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 enthusiasm I was assuming most of it would clear. > > > Seems like it'd be both an annoucement of how far we've come, as well as > > a warning to users that the 8.2-->9.0 upgrade could be painful. > > Why would you think that? File format changes and the implicit conversion patch. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
Re: [HACKERS] Wild idea: 9.0?
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 been a short devel cycle and one almost entirely focused on performance, not user-visible features. > Seems like it'd be both an annoucement of how far we've come, as well as a > warning to users that the 8.2-->9.0 upgrade could be painful. Why would you think that? regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
Re: [HACKERS] Wild idea: 9.0?
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 annoucement of how far we've come, as well as a warning to users that the 8.2-->9.0 upgrade could be painful. And that some of our more radical features in the new version could have some rough edges. Of course, that does put is closer to 10.0 which is going to break a lot of packager's scripts. ;-) Thoughts? I like 8.3 better personally. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
