Re: [GENERAL] Website Documentation

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Russell Smith <mr-russ(at)pws(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Website Documentation
Date: 2005-02-13 15:16:26
Message-ID: 200502131516.j1DFGQT12743@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Russell Smith wrote:
> >> The release notes for 8.0 and 7.4 only go to version 8.0.0 and 7.4.6.
>
> > If you want the changes to the server between releases see the Release
> > notes in the documentation.
>
> I think his point is that those notes aren't up on the website. We
> should make a regular practice of updating the on-line docs to match
> each minor release, even if nothing changed except the release notes
> (which is often not the case, anyway).

Uh, my next question is why isn't the documentation updated on the web
site for each minor release? We update the tarball HTML for each
release. This seems like a pretty large omission.

Is it the web comments that prevent it?

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