Robby Russell <robby@planetargon.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:48 -0400, Artem Litvinovich wrote:
>> I would like to know what are the significant changes and new features
>> introduced in Postgres 8.0 which warranted the major version number
>> increment.
> I think that if you look in the postgresql advocacy list archives, it
> was first mentioned by Josh Berkus as to why the change to 8.0
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2004-08/msg00022.php
Also see
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html#RELEASE-8-0
regards, tom lane