Re: [GENERAL] 8.0 questions

2004-10-15 Thread David Garamond
Vivek Khera wrote: "GS" == Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GS> David Garamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GS> Another reason to move to 7.4.5 would be that each version GS> introduced changes in behaviour. You're going to be dealing with GS> minor headaches from things like '' not being a va

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0 questions

2004-10-14 Thread Vivek Khera
> "GS" == Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GS> David Garamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GS> Another reason to move to 7.4.5 would be that each version GS> introduced changes in behaviour. You're going to be dealing with GS> minor headaches from things like '' not being a valid integer

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0 questions

2004-10-08 Thread Greg Stark
David Garamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We have a lot of 7.2.5 versions running which badly needs an update, but > > if version 8.0.0 comes in the near future, we could surely hold out a > > while longer and go for the top of the line. > > Unless you need a specific feature of 8.0 (savepo

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0 questions

2004-10-08 Thread Gaetano Mendola
David Garamond wrote: Thomas Madsen wrote: A quite impressive list of changes in version 8.0.0. ... But the question from me is: When is it done? Two words: Nobody knows. Beta cycle is usually at least 2-3 months. First beta is in Aug. So a release is probably Nov at the earliest. We have a lot

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0 questions

2004-10-08 Thread David Garamond
Thomas Madsen wrote: A quite impressive list of changes in version 8.0.0. ... But the question from me is: When is it done? Two words: Nobody knows. Beta cycle is usually at least 2-3 months. First beta is in Aug. So a release is probably Nov at the earliest. We have a lot of 7.2.5 versions runn

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0 questions

2004-10-08 Thread Thomas Madsen
r 2004 04:04 > To: Robby Russell > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 8.0 questions > > > Robby Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:48 -0400, Artem Litvinovich wrote: > >> I would like to know

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0 questions

2004-10-07 Thread Tom Lane
Robby Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 p

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0 questions

2004-10-07 Thread Robby Russell
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:48 -0400, Artem Litvinovich wrote: > Dear postgres community, > > 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. From the postres website it is not very clear as I