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> <center>
> <h1>
> The History of PostgreSQL</h1></center>
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> <center>
> <h2>
> Part II(Parody)</h2></center>
> After PostgreSQL 6.5, we decided to change some things. First, we
> cut out the beta testing period. We decided to make every prime-numbered
> release a stable release. This worked fine for a while, but as the
> version numbers got larger, the number of prime numbers became rare.
> We put out more unstable releases to reach the prime stable release version
> numbers. We removed the regression tests. (Saved disk space).
> The documentation was too hard to maintain, so we removed that too.
Also, as Stonebreaker once said, productional rule systems
are conceptually simple. After changing our concepts some
more it was so easy that really a first time BASIC programmer
could have done it all (we simply simplyfied your concept by
removing productional rules at all - no concept no problems).
Jan
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