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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Neil Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: 7.4 compatibility question
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:08:04 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1066797764.374.1.camel@tokyo>

Neil Conway wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 00:41, 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!
> 
> I agree -- documenting possible areas of incompatibility is important,
> and I would prefer that we err on the side of mentioning too much,
> rather than too little.

Docs updated to include 'today':

     <listitem><para> <literal>'now'</literal> will no longer work as a
        column default; <function>now()</> or
        <function>CURRENT_TIMESTAMP</> should be used instead</para></listitem>
     <listitem><para> <literal>'today'</literal> will no longer work as
        a column default; <function>CURRENT_DATE</>
        should be used instead</para></listitem>

As far as yesterday/tomorrow, I think anyone using that will realize
that if 'today' doesn't work, those will not either.  Sure, I like to be
complete too, but at a certain point it becomes overload and people
can't process it.  Part of the reason the release notes are read is
because they are _readable_, or as readable was we can make +300
changes.

Do you think I include every user-visible change in the release notes? 
It would be 2-3x longer, and probably not more useful.

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