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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: 7.4 compatibility question
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:00:32 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> 
> > It would be pretty strange to use those as a default --- I am not
> > inclined to mention it in the release notes --- we don't mention every
> > change, only significant ones.
> 
> Personally, I think that's a fairly silly policy!  How does it hurt us 
> to mention it and you just know that someone, somewhere, is doing it...

The release notes are already 550 lines --- adding the mention of
something almost no one uses doesn't make sense --- if we did that, the
list might be 1000 lines and more unreadable.  Same logic goes for the
list of changes --- I only mention user-visible changes, in most cases.

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