Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78485633BE6 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:22:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 75062-03-3 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:22:24 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F4B633663 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:21:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n3DHLk3G017839; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:21:46 -0400 (EDT) To: Scott Marlowe cc: Euler Taveira de Oliveira , Bruce Momjian , PostgreSQL-documentation Subject: Re: Inheritance mention In-reply-to: References: <200904130222.n3D2MFV19893@momjian.us> <49E2CA4D.3040705@timbira.com> <13783.1239602658@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Scott Marlowe message dated "Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:47:32 -0600" Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:21:46 -0400 Message-ID: <17838.1239643306@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200904/35 X-Sequence-Number: 5123 Scott Marlowe writes: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Pre-7.1 might indeed be old enough to cut, but how much are we really >> saving?  Four sentences out of our current docs doesn't excite me ... > But since there's a doc set per version, it would make sense to stop > mentioning unsupported versions in the docs for supported versions, > no? Or is this a FAQ thing we're talking about? The problem is what to tell people to read if they want to transition from an unsupported version to a supported version. If we really wanted to save some space, we could cut all the release notes for pre-7.4 (soon pre-8.0) releases. But somehow that doesn't seem like a good idea. What it would mainly accomplish is to make it hard to find the old information when you wanted it. regards, tom lane