Re: 7.4 Press Release

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> 1) I pulled the 100 developer number from thin air, Greg, can you whip
> up some numbers on the number of developers that contributed for this
> cycle? (I seem to recall you did this last year)

More difficult this time. I would just say "hundreds" and leave it at that.

The rest of my $0.02:

> The PostgreSQL Global Development Group is pleased to announce the
> availability of version 7.4 of the PostgreSQL database management
> system. This significant release represents the work of our world wide

I'd work the RDBMS acronym in there somehow. Acronyms reassure people. :)

> building on the unparalleled success of our 7.3 release in November 2002.

A little glossy.

> trouble shooting, while at the same time providing users real

"Troubleshooting" is one word.

> configuration information in a standard compliant way.

I think this should be either "standard and compliant" or "standards compliant"

> - Statement level triggers, enabling developers and users define
> and customized behavior of the database when data is stored and

Should be "users to define and customize"

> As well as many, many other features and improvements.

Redundant, just say "many"

> - Performance improvements to data warehousing functionality.

Might want to expand on this a little bit and make it sound more important.
There are some major speedups in the planner/optimizer.
(On rereading, I guess that is covered below).

> A Timely Release
>
> In making the release, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group had to
> balance the large number of features planned for release with a
> consistent release cycle, which provides loyal users with enhancements
> as quickly as possible. <Insert quote from core developer reinforcing
> this>

Too much backpedalling and explaining. Let's just release and promote.

> http://advocacy.postgresql.org

Should have a trailing slash

>
> A complete list of changes in PostgreSQL version 7.3 can be found in the

Should be 7.4

> About PostgreSQL:
> With more than 16 years of development by hundreds of the world's
> most generous and brilliant minds from the open source community,
> PostgreSQL is the world's most advanced open source database. With its
> long time support of an enterprise level feature set including
> transactions, stored procedures, triggers, and subqueries, PostgreSQL is
> being used by many of today's most demanding businesses and government
> agencies.

Very nice.

> Corporations such as BASF, Red Hat, Afilias Limited (suporting the

"supporting"

> technical back-end of the .org and .info domains), Cisco, Chrysler, and

"back end" - no hyphen

> development process. PostgreSQL is available under a BSD License for
> both commercial and non-commercial use.

Might want a specific link to a licensing page so people can learn about it
and how it differs from others.

> http://www.postgresql.org

Trailing slash

> 2) What were the improvements for data warehousing? I don't remember
> anything specific to that cause.

If Tom's slides from OSCON are available, this would be a great place to look.

> 3) I'm thinking over chopping the last two features off and grouping
> them in with an other features list including
> - Functional indexes have been generalized into expressional indexes
> - Pattern matching operations can use indexes regardless of locale

> - Reimplementation of NUMERIC datatype for more speed

Too obscure and only reminds people of "slow"

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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