On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:56:44PM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote:
> On 2013.03.01 10:19 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >7.0 was because Postgres became crash-safe, and stopped crashing routinely.
>
> Resilience to crashes by design is certainly a major feature when
> you didn't have it before, and worthy of the 7.
>
> So why doesn't
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-7-0.html make any
> mention of this?
>
> You'd think the major reason for the release naming would be
> highlighted at the top of that page.
6.5 was the big release that should have been 7.0 because of crash
safety. 8.0 and 9.0 were properly numbered based on feature additions.
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