Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> ... should this be 9.0 instead of 8.3?
No. This is mere version-number-inflation.
Eyeing the patch queue and wondering how much of it is really going to
get in, I'm not sure that eight point two and a half wouldn't be a more
appropriate name. It's been a short devel cycle and one almost entirely
focused on performance, not user-visible features.
> Seems like it'd be both an annoucement of how far we've come, as well as a
> warning to users that the 8.2-->9.0 upgrade could be painful.
Why would you think that?
regards, tom lane