From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Features for next release |
Date: | 1999-10-12 04:07:57 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.10.9910120106430.404-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
> It seems people are thinking winter or early spring (northern hemisphere
> that is ;-)) for the next major release, and by then I think there will
> be enough cool stuff done that we can call it 7.0. The only really big
> to-do item that no one seems to be committed to doing in this cycle is
> tuples bigger than a disk block, and maybe once the dust settles for
> long queries someone will feel like tackling that...
>
> I have another reason for calling it 7.0, which is that if we fix
> the function-call interface the way I want to, we will break existing
> user-written loadable modules that contain C-language functions.
> Better to do that in a "7.0" than in a "6.6", no?
Based on all the comments flyng around, v7.0 it is. to be released...some
day :)
Bruce, you asked for a v6.5.3 to be released...anything outstanding that
should prevent me from doing that tomorrow afternoon?
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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