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