Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 release

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Tom Lane wrote:

> Maybe so.  What's in a name, anyway?  But I think we've established a
> precedent that it takes a really significant jump to bump the front

Actually, we've never set a precedent...v6.0 was so named more because
v1.10 just sounded like such a small number compared to the overall age of
the software...

> OTOH, we've already changed the version ID in current sources, and
> changing it back might not be worth the trouble of arguing ;-)

Okay, I can agree with that one :)

Peter brought up a good argument over on his side too...make the Feb1st
one 7, and we'll make the post-WAL stuff 8.0 ...

Just as a note, I'm not 100% certain how this generally works in "real
life", but, in some circumstances, I've seen it happen where the major
gets bumped a significant number of changes have gone into everything
since the last major bump...I think we have achieved that at least one
release back...

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
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