Re: Release note bloat is getting out of hand

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Release note bloat is getting out of hand
Date: 2015-02-03 01:59:56
Message-ID: 54D02B9C.6010102@agliodbs.com
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On 02/02/2015 05:39 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2/1/15 11:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think it's time we changed the policy of including all release notes
>> back to the beginning in Appendix E.
>
> I share the sentiment that the release notes *seem* too big, but the
> subsequent discussion shows that it's not clear why that's really a
> problem. Exactly what problem are we trying to fix?

At a rough count of lines, the release notes for unsupported versions
are about 18% of documentation overall (47K out of 265K lines). So
they're not insubstantial. Compared to the total size of the tarball,
though ...

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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