Re: First draft of 9.5 release announcement, please comment/edit/suggest

Basil,

> Generally best to define first occurrence of acronyms with full name spelled-out. But I don’t know if I would bother with these two or not.
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> PCI, HIPAA
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Those are external acronyms, and in common usage in the USA; do they
need to be spelled out? Frankly, I use them and have no idea what they
stand for. What do other people think?

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> I would shorten this wordy sentence:
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> PostgreSQL 9.5 includes multiple features enabling it to be used for even bigger databases, as well as integrating it with other Big Data systems.
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> …to this…
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> PostgreSQL 9.5 includes multiple features for bigger databases, and for integrating with other Big Data systems.
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> The ’t’ in ‘this’ should be uppercase.
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> BRIN Indexing: this new type of index
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> Ditto here for ’these’ :
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> CUBE, ROLLUP and GROUPING SETS: these new standard SQL
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Thanks for edits.

> Has your team intentionally changed the product line from this as seen on the postgresql.org web site:
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> The world’s most advanced open source database.
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> …to this, used twice in your press release?
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> PostgreSQL is the leading open source database system
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It's not a general change of slogan; most advanced is used elsewhere, I
think. Personally, I would love to change our slogan to "world's
leading" but that's not an argument I'm willing to start now.

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Josh Berkus
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