Hi,

it would have been a much cleaner solution to increment
the version number after realizing, that a wrong version
has been distributed.
To distribute another software with the same version
number - even if the wrong version was available only for 
a very short time - is definitely a no no.

Edmund
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Fri, 25 Dec 1998 09:35:13 +0100
Edmund Mergl <E.Mergl@bawue.de>
postgresql-6.4.1.tar.gz
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> Hi,
> 
> it would have been a much cleaner solution to increment
> the version number after realizing, that a wrong version
> has been distributed.
> To distribute another software with the same version
> number - even if the wrong version was available only for 
> a very short time - is definitely a no no.

It was Marc's call.

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Fri, 25 Dec 1998 06:22:01 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: [HACKERS] postgresql-6.4.1.tar.gz
> > it would have been a much cleaner solution to increment
> > the version number after realizing, that a wrong version
> > has been distributed.
> > To distribute another software with the same version
> > number - even if the wrong version was available only for
> > a very short time - is definitely a no no.
> It was Marc's call.

But still not too late to fix. I think Edmund has a very valid point. We
should be releasing v6.4.2 to eliminate any ambiguity in which version
people are running.

It is much easier to say: "If you are running v6.4.1, then kill it and
install v6.4.2."

This is important imho. Sorry I was out of town and not contributing to
the discussion earlier...

                         - Tom

Mon, 28 Dec 1998 16:01:31 +0000
"Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Re: [HACKERS] postgresql-6.4.1.tar.gz
Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> 
> It is much easier to say: "If you are running v6.4.1, then kill it and
> install v6.4.2."

BTW , 6.4.1 didn't solved the -lcrypt problem in Makefile for libpgtcl
:-(

I had to add it manually. I was testing that on two different computers,
with RedHat 5.1 and 5.2 versions, still the same problem.

As I recall, there was someone at a moment that claimed that the problem
was solved, he send me a patch and I tested it and it worked. Was that
patch included at that time ?

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Mon, 28 Dec 1998 18:13:58 +0200
Constantin Teodorescu <teo@flex.ro>
Re: [HACKERS] postgresql-6.4.1.tar.gz