Re: How to find release notes

On 2/2/06 3:56 pm, "Russ Brown" <pickscrape(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at www.postgrsql.org and wondering how to find the release
> notes for 8.1.2.
>
> I can see the link for the 8.1.2 release, but that just links to a
> directory of the release tarballs. Actually, all that would be needed
> here would be a text file in that directory containing the release
> notes.
>
> My reasoning for wanting the release notes if to decide if a) I
> actually need to upgrade from 8.1.1 and b) if there are any special
> upgrade steps I need to perform.
>
> Finding release notes is one thing I've always struggled with when it
> comes to PostrgreSQL. I'm sure that the information it there, it just
> seems to be rather difficult to get to from the site homepage. Any
> chance it could be made a little easier?

They're under the documentation, in Appendix E

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/release.html

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