From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200707111328.l6BDS0B18204@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: 8.2.4 patches?
In-Reply-To: <20070711132251.GD3294@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:28:00 -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:
> 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.

Yes, they were just in the tarballs.

> > 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).

But then do we also supply the cvs2cl for a major release.  We certainly
could.

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