Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 10:42, Tom Lane wrote: >> <shrug> ... The backend will still talk to old clients, and libpq will >> still talk to old backends, so I don't think the protocol change is >> really going to cause a flag day for anyone. On a technical level it's >> probably not an adequate reason to call this release 8.0. > Can you give me an example of a technical change that would warrant a > major version bump?
Well, if we hadn't gotten the work done to make libpq still able to talk to older backends, then we'd have had enough of a compatibility issue that I think calling it 8.0 would have been a reasonable thing to do. If you want a feature-with-a-capital-F reason for going to 8.0, there is only one candidate Feature in my personal view, and that's a built-in replication solution. That doesn't seem to be getting any nearer :-( regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster