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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:47:32 -0600
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Subject: Re: Inheritance mention
From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>,
	Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>,
	PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com> writes:
>> Bruce Momjian escreveu:
>>> Do people feel we should continue documenting that Postgres pre-7.1
>>> didn't reference child tables by default?
>>>
>> No. IMHO we should remove references to unsupported releases from docume=
ntation.
>
> "Unsupported releases" is far too strict a criterion for this. =A0For
> example, there are demonstrably still people using 7.2 (we had a
> question about it just last week). =A0They will still appreciate these
> notes when they get around to updating.
>
> Pre-7.1 might indeed be old enough to cut, but how much are we really
> saving? =A0Four sentences out of our current docs doesn't excite me ...

But since there's a doc set per version, it would make sense to stop
mentioning unsupported versions in the docs for supported versions,
no?  Or is this a FAQ thing we're talking about?