Re: 9.3 release notes suggestions

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 03:50:34PM +0300, Marti Raudsepp wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Thanks for the many suggestions on improving the 9.3 release notes.
> > There were many ideas I would have never thought of. Please keep the
> > suggestions coming.
>
> Some observations:
>
> 1. "Allow CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS to succeed for a non-existent schema"
>
> This should be DROP TABLE IF EXISTS. Clearly CREATE cannot succeed
> without a schema :)

Seems I can only blame my own commit message for that confusion. :-(
Fixed.

>
> 2. "Dramatically reduce System V shared memory usage"
>
> I find this description misleading. When reading for the first time,
> it sounds as if Postgres memory usage is reduced, but it's actually
> just using different kind of shared memory.
>
> How about "Use mmap() instead of System V shared memory on Unix systems"

I changed it to:

Dramatically reduce System V <link linkend="sysvipc">shared
memory</link> requirements (Robert Haas)
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