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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[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 12:35:38 +0100
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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.

Regards,D ave.

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