Re: 9.4 release notes

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:40:29AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 05/04/2014 05:46 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I have completed the initial version of the 9.4 release notes. You can
> > view them here:
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/release-9-4.html
> >
> > I will be adding additional markup in the next few days.
> >
> > Feedback expected and welcomed. I expect to be modifying this until we
> > release 9.4 final. I have marked items where I need help with question
> > marks.
> >
>
> Major enhancement list:
>
> Per discussion on the -advocacy list, the features we've picked out as
> "major enhancements" for advocacy reasons this round are:
>
> * Materialized Views (because with refresh concurrently, MatViews are
> now useful, which they weren't, very, in 9.3)
>
> * Logical Decoding/Changeset Extraction which we're calling "Data Change
> Streaming API" in the advocacy stuff. Not sure if you want to use that
> name in the technical realease notes.
>
> * Dynamic Background Workers (this one is a major feature, but won't be
> front-listed in advocacy doc because it's hard to explain and nobody's
> built anything cool with it yet. But it should go under major
> enhancements in the release notes)
>
> * JSONB and related features (such as indexing)
>
> * ALTER SYSTEM SET
>
> Lemme know if you need description text for any of the above.

OK, great! Once I have the markup done, I will beef up the descriptions
if needed and copy the text up to the major items section so we have
that all ready for beta.

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