Re: Version Numbering -- The great debate

Hello,<br /><br /> Version 7.5 is as close to a major release as I have seen in the almost 9 years I have been using
PostgreSQL.<br/> This release brings about a lot of "enterprise" features that have been holding back PostgreSQL in a
bigway for<br /> for a long time.<br /><br /> All of my serious customers; potential, existing and past has all at one
pointor another requested most if not<br /> all of the features being released onto the world with 7.5. In fact the
onlyones that I can think of off the top <br /> of my head that isn't in the current list of availables is table
partitioningand to a lesser extent two phase commit.<br /><br /> This release definately deserves a major version jump.
Ifit were up to me it would be more than one (I would<br /> call it 10h for obvious reasons. O.k. the h is a joke but I
amserious about the 10) just from a marketing <br /> standpoint. I could argue a major version jump just from the fact
thatwe finally have a port to the most used <br /> operating system (regardless if that is good or bad) in the
world.<br/><br /> Sincerely,<br /><br /> Joshua D. Drake<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> Tom Lane wrote:<br /><blockquote
cite="mid4010.1091319264@sss.pgh.pa.us"type="cite"><pre wrap="">Josh Berkus <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:josh@agliodbs.com">josh@agliodbs.com</a>>writes: </pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">Even if
Savepointsdon't make it, we'll still have:   </pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
 
Savepoints are in, as is exception-trapping in functions (at least
plpgsql, the other PLs are on their own :-().

Some other major improvements you didn't mention:

Cross-datatype comparisons are indexable (at least for common
combinations); this solves a huge performance gotcha

Dependency-aware pg_dump

Much more complete support for rowtype operations

 </pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">This is more features worth mentioning than we've ever had in a single
release
 
before -- and if you consider several add-ons which have been 
implemented/improved at the same time (Slony, PL/Java, etc.) it's even more 
momentous.   If this isn't 8.0, then what will be?      </pre></blockquote><pre wrap="">
I tend to agree, and was about to bring up the point myself.
        regards, tom lane

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