From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200310260508.h9Q58LQ21664@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: 7.4 compatibility question
In-Reply-To: <20031026.135522.112626548.t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 01:08:21 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: peter_e@gmx.net, neilc@samurai.com, chriskl@familyhealth.com.au,
	tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
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Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > OK, if Tatsuo and SRA are having problems, I have to address it.  I can
> > supply a more detailed list to Tatsuo/SRA, or I can beef up the release
> > notes to contain more information.  Seems some in the community would
> > like to have this detail so I might as well do it and have it in the
> > official docs.  One idea would be to add a section at the bottom of the
> > release notes that goes into detail on changes listed in the release
> > notes above --- that way, people can still skim the 300-line release
> > notes, and if they want detailed information about the optimizer changes
> > or subtle pg_dump fixes, that will be at the bottom.
> > 
> > How does that sound?  I can start on this for 7.4 next week.  It
> > basically means going through the CVS logs again and pulling out
> > additional details.
> 
> Sounds good. However this kind of information could become huge and I
> am afraid it does not suite well in the official docs in the source
> tree. I think putiing it in somewhere in a web site (maybe
> http://developer.postgresql.org/?) might be more appropreate.
> What do you think?

Yes, I had thought about that --- I put something about migrating to 7.3
on a web page and put the URL in the release notes, and the URL kept
becoming invalid as they changed web configurations.  I am afraid we
have to keep this in CVS so we don't lose it over time.

It could be huge.  Current release notes for 7.4 is around 500 lines.  I
think I could do this in another 500 lines.

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