Re: 7.4 compatibility question

Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > OK, if Tatsuo and SRA are having problems, I have to address it. I can
> > supply a more detailed list to Tatsuo/SRA, or I can beef up the release
> > notes to contain more information. Seems some in the community would
> > like to have this detail so I might as well do it and have it in the
> > official docs. One idea would be to add a section at the bottom of the
> > release notes that goes into detail on changes listed in the release
> > notes above --- that way, people can still skim the 300-line release
> > notes, and if they want detailed information about the optimizer changes
> > or subtle pg_dump fixes, that will be at the bottom.
> >
> > How does that sound? I can start on this for 7.4 next week. It
> > basically means going through the CVS logs again and pulling out
> > additional details.
>
> Sounds good. However this kind of information could become huge and I
> am afraid it does not suite well in the official docs in the source
> tree. I think putiing it in somewhere in a web site (maybe
> http://developer.postgresql.org/?) might be more appropreate.
> What do you think?

Yes, I had thought about that --- I put something about migrating to 7.3
on a web page and put the URL in the release notes, and the URL kept
becoming invalid as they changed web configurations. I am afraid we
have to keep this in CVS so we don't lose it over time.

It could be huge. Current release notes for 7.4 is around 500 lines. I
think I could do this in another 500 lines.

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