From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200310241523.h9OFNu924141@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: 7.4 compatibility question
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To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:23:56 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>,
	Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>,
	Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > If they _must_ be done the way you suggest, why have we been able to
> > generate reliable release notes all these years?
> 
> With all respect for your work and your enthusiasm for this approach, but
> personally, I have absolutely no confidence that the release notes are
> complete, accurate, or reliable.  That is my deeply founded motivation for
> trying to institute changes.  But I might be wrong and my fears might have
> no merit.

Sure, I fear missing things too.  One of my goals is to make sure I
understand all the CVS commit messages that appear, so I know later I
can make a release note about it.  Right now, we have a simple process
that you can move through step by step and make sure you get everything.
With a piecemeal approach, I think we are much more likely to miss
something, or have things get confused by merging a CVS log version and
a piecemeal version.

Looking at the past, I don't remember us missing anything --- I do
remember missing a few items that should have been listed in the
compatibilities section, but that is more of a problem of us not
reviewing the release notes thoroughly.

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