Re: Stamping of 8.4

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Stamping of 8.4
Date: 2008-02-13 20:56:43
Message-ID: 23409.1202936203@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
>> Minor version bump is done unconditionally for each release cycle.

> This isn't a *huge* deal, but I'm not sure it's actually appropriate.
> We should bump the minor version when we actually add something new to
> the library (which is probably just about every time we do a major
> version, but still).

Only if there were exactly zero changes would the minor version bump
be unnecessary. I doubt that's ever happened.

regards, tom lane

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