Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:22:51 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu>,
	pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 8.2.4 patches?
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.

How about including the changelog until the branch point?

I remember there used to be ChangeLog files on CVS but that sounds a bit
redundant.  But I am thinking in generating them for the tarball only,
just like we provide the HTML docs or the bison output.

> Perhaps we should supply a URL that generates that information.

I think we should *also* do this.

FWIW I use

cvs2cl --revisions --no-indent --no-wrap --separate-header --follow $branch \
     --no-ancestors --accum

and it generates a 90k file when branch=REL8_2_STABLE (it only includes
the changes after REL8_2_STABLE was first tagged).

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