Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:49:37 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu>, pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 8.2.4 patches?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Ray Stell wrote:
> >> Are there critical security or performance patches that should be 
> >> applied to 824 and how could I have determined this without this post?
> 
> > The changelog after 8.2.4 is below.  I don't think there's a way to get
> > this easily, short of having a copy of the CVS repository.
> 
> The other way to check the change history is to troll the
> pgsql-committers archives
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/
> although certainly cvs2cl output is a lot easier to scan.
> 
> My $0.02: if you really want the latest and greatest, the nightly
> snapshot tarball of the current stable branch would be the thing to
> grab, rather than fooling with individual patches.

Hmm, do we include the cvs2cl-generated ChangeLog in the tarballs?

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