X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B61D1B8A0 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:26:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 51251-05 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:26:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (unknown [192.204.191.242]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E2FD1B544 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:26:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9MHQ0it017342; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:26:00 -0400 (EDT) To: Bruce Momjian Cc: Neil Conway , Christopher Kings-Lynne , PostgreSQL Hackers Subject: Re: 7.4 compatibility question In-reply-to: <200310221712.h9MHCKN20676@candle.pha.pa.us> References: <200310221712.h9MHCKN20676@candle.pha.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian message dated "Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:12:20 -0400" Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:26:00 -0400 Message-ID: <17341.1066843560@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200310/1043 X-Sequence-Number: 45725 Bruce Momjian writes: > As far as incrementally updating the release notes --- lots of our work > is incremental, meaning we fix X, then add Y, and Z, and the resulting > change is one release note entry (psql \d display improvements, for > example). Documenting them separately just leads to a mess of entries > that we have to consolidate at the end anyway. We do already have a practice of adding notes about significant changes to release.sgml as they are made. That's relatively new though, and I dunno if it's helped Bruce prepare the finished release notes or not. Bruce, did you use those notes at all this time? regards, tom lane