Re: 8.0 questions

David Garamond wrote:
> Thomas Madsen wrote:
> 
>> A quite impressive list of changes in version 8.0.0. ...
>>
>> But the question from me is: When is it done? 
> 
> 
> Two words: Nobody knows. Beta cycle is usually at least 2-3 months. 
> First beta is in Aug. So a release is probably Nov at the earliest.
> 
>> We have a lot of 7.2.5 versions running which badly needs an update, but
>> if version 8.0.0 comes in the near future, we could surely hold out a
>> while longer and go for the top of the line.
> 
> 
> Unless you need a specific feature of 8.0 (savepoint, PITR, migration to 
> Windows :)), it's generally recommended to use 7.4.5. 8.0's previous 
> name was 7.5 and it was renamed to X.0 to reflect the fact that it is 
> not believed to be more robust than 7.4.

Wait wait. All X.0 version are not believed more robust then Y.Z with
Y < X and Z >> 0

Anyway is a general consensus that the win32 8.0 version is not more robust
than his counterpart *nix 8.0  this because lot of code already mature in *nix
environment is new in the win32 one.


Regards
Gaetano Mendola