From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200707111306.l6BD69G14356@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: 8.2.4 patches?
In-Reply-To: <20070711124937.GA3294@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:06:09 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu>,
	pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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?

No, we don't.  We used to but the file got too large.  Perhaps we should
supply a URL that generates that information.

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