Re: Detailed release notes

On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 12:39:28PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I applied this patch to PG 17. You can see the results at:
>
> https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-17.html
>
> The community doc build only shows the master branch, which is PG 18,
> and the PG 17 docs are only built before the release.
>
> I changed the patch to use the section symbol "§" instead of showing
> the hashes. The hashes seemed too detailed. Does anyone see a better
> symbol to use from here?
>
> http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities_page.html
>
> I think we are limited to the HTML entities listed on that page. I also
> removed the brackets and the period you added at the end of the text.

I wrote the attached Perl script that automatically adds commit links.
I tested it against PG 12-17 and the results were good. I plan to add
this script to all branches and run it on all branch release notes in a
few days.

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