>
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > If Win32 actually makes it into 7.5 then yes I believe 8.0 would be
> > appropriate.
>
> It might be interesting to track Oracle's version number viz. its
> feature list. IOW, a PostgreSQL 8.0 database would be feature
> equivalent to an Oracle 8.0 database. That would mean:
>
> 1) PITR
> 2) Distributed Tx
> 3) Replication
> 4) Nested Tx
> 5) PL/SQL Exception Handling
>
> IMHO, a major version number jump should at least match the delta in
> features one finds in the commercial segment with their major version
> number bumps. Otherwise, I suspect it would be viewed as window
> dressing...
Good point. To me the best argument against so far.
>
> Could be wrong, though...
>
> Mike Mascari
> mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com
>
>
Regards, Christoph