Re: PG 11 feature count

On 2018-05-17 19:56:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 18 May 2018 at 11:29, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >> I regularly track the number of items documented in each major release.
> >> I use the attached script. You might be surprised to learn that PG 11
> >> has the lowest feature count of any release back through 7.4:
>
> > Interesting. I wonder how much of that drop over the past few years
> > can be accounted for by the fact that easier stuff tends to get
> > implemented first, and now we're all just left with the hard stuff.
>
> I don't think the "features" are all the same size, either.
> Procedures and JIT are both pretty major things ...

Yea. You could easily break down either feature into at least 10
sub-features that would independently be listed if they happend in
subsequent releases... I don't think counting items in the release
notes yields something particularly meaningful.

Greetings,

Andres Freund