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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Hammond <[email protected]>
Cc: CAJ CAJ <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: pgsql-www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:27:08 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:35:38PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Terminology aside, why? The unit is "8.1" not "8" and "1". It makes no
> > sense to say you're on version 8, in the given context, so why should the
> > XML data pretend there is?
> 
> Because serving the data in the decomposed format gives the consumer the
> maximum flexibility to do as they wish with the data. I find it hard to
> see why, as a relational database guy, you'd want to offer the data as
> "8.1", "8.1.3" etc. when you can just give the three parts separately
> and allow people to check whatever they need without having to chop up
> strings!
> 
> Imagine wanting to display only the details of the 8.x releases on a
> site for example. In your schema, you'd have to use a substring match on
> an attribute value to filter out 6.x and 7.x.

That is actually precisely my point. It makes *no sense* to filter based on
8.x. 8.0 is no more a major release than 7.4. And we'd encourage people to
do that.

//Magnus

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