Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?

Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>

From: Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>
To: mascarm@mascari.com (Mike Mascari)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-18T10:20:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> 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@mascari.com
> 
> 
Regards, Christoph