Re: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL status report

Bruce.

May be, you'll note this 6.5 revisions as the first _commerce quality
revisions_.

I estimate 6.3 as the first _stable_ revision, and new 6.5 as the first
_high stable_ revision versions.

Yes. It seems 6.5 is much more stable, but it is hard for us to know
that, even now, because we don't get many "big picture" reports about
releases like this. I am sending this over to the hackers list for
comment.

It's the very important point. All UNIX systems for todays get surrender
to NT systems because NT have embedded (not embedded but not expansive
and almost embedded) SQL server and it allow developers to use SQL for
the storing data in the middle-range projects. For now, it was impossible
fro the UNIX because you had a choice - to use extra expansive ORACLE
(huge monstrous system) or to use DB data base. Not MYSQL not PSQL was
stable enougph to store any critical data.

This days there is new point when you can announce PSQL as the _almost
embedded_ data base. I think this system split in future into the two
branches - first, free, withough support and some extra tools, for the
embedded data bases used in the cheap projects, and commercial branch
with the extra tools and extra possibiloities (for example, threading is
not important for the free release). Of cource, I prefere to have not
commercial branch at all, but it's the real life...

Anyway, it's good if someone announce this versions as _ready for the
wide usage_.

Alex.

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