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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Re: [GENERAL] programmatic way to fetch latest release for a
	given major.minor version
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:59:12 +0200
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Am Dienstag, 10. April 2007 13:35 schrieb Dave Page:
> 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 use case is just as valid as wanting to show only releases >= 7.4.  The 
user could run an arithmetic expression to check for that and >= 8.0.

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Peter Eisentraut
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