Not to mention that it signals that something major is going on too.
Josh Berkus wrote:
>Folks,
>
>After some discussion on Hackers and Core, we've decided to name the upcoming
>version of PostgreSQL 8.0.0. This is for a couple of reasons:
>
>1) The volume of changes since 7.0 make this barely recognizable as the same
>ORDBMS as we had in 1998.
>
>2) It's hoped that the major version number increase will make users extra
>cautious about upgrading production products to this version; given the
>volume of new features, we're likely to have more bugs and incompatibilities
>than usual.
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