Re: First stab at 9.0 release announcement

On 24 June 2010 09:35, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> Thom Brown wrote:
>>> > ? ?The PostgreSQL Global Development Team is proud to announce the release of
>>> > ? ?PostgreSQL 9.0. This is the 31st release of the world's leading open
>>> > ? ?source relational database system.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Hmm... saying 31st almost sounds like it's just another normal
>>> release.  Couldn't you make it something like "This landmark version
>>> marks the 31st release of..."
>>
>> Getting '31' in there certainly reinforces our seriousness as a
>> database and as a community.
>
> Only if it has some grounding in fact - noone has answered Kevin's
> question yet about what it actually refers to.
>

I can't get to that number either.  If you take the 6 releases from
the 6.x series, 5 from 7.x, 5 from 8.x and then 9, that's 17.  Does
throwing in Postgres95 and POSTGRES 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x bring it up to
31?

Thom