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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Hammond <[email protected]>
Cc: CAJ CAJ <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: pgsql-www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Re: [GENERAL] programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:42:07 -0400
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Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
> It makes sense to store things separately when they have a semantic
> difference.  What we call "major" is the first two digits and dot.  We
> call "minor" to the third digit, and that's all.  We don't have
> "revisions".  This is how it has ever been and we even document it as
> such.  Offering the first two digits separately would be a mistake
> because it causes confusion over what's significant -- the first digit
> by itself is not significant.

While I agree with this position, ISTM that an easy compromise is
available: put both formats into the data.

			regards, tom lane

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