From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200310220500.h9M50WQ22733@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: 7.4 compatibility question
In-Reply-To: <3F960A83.4010205@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:00:32 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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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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