From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200310221729.h9MHTLT22629@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: 7.4 compatibility question
In-Reply-To: <17341.1066843560@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:29:21 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>,
	Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>,
	PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> 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?

I checked them to make sure they were already included in my CVS notes,
and I might have used some of its wording if it was better than mine.

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