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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 18:47:37 -0700
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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 12: Feature Highlights
To: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>,
 Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
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On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 6:39 PM David Rowley
<david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I do think the release notes should be meant as a source of
> information which give a brief view on changes made that have a
> reasonable possibility of affecting people (either negative or
> positively) who are upgrading. Leaving out important details because
> they might confuse a small group of people seems wrong-headed

If the only thing that comes out of the developer meeting discussion
item on release notes is that we make the commits behind each listing
*discoverable* from the web, then that will still be a big
improvement. I would prefer it if we went further, but that seems like
it solves a lot of problems without creating new ones.

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Peter Geoghegan