Re: New version == 8.0

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Folks,
>
> After some discussion on Hackers and Core, we've decided to name the upcoming
> version of PostgreSQL 8.0.0. This is for a couple of reasons:
>
> 1) The volume of changes since 7.0 make this barely recognizable as the same
> ORDBMS as we had in 1998.
>
> 2) It's hoped that the major version number increase will make users extra
> cautious about upgrading production products to this version; given the
> volume of new features, we're likely to have more bugs and incompatibilities
> than usual.

Not to mention it's tough enough spitting out PostgreSQL but then add
seven point four point 3 ... to the end of that and I'm slobbering all
over myself. (Well a couple of pints may be contributing to the
slobbering. :-)

Eight will make it much easier and less embarrassing!

Rod
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