| From: | Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Detailed release notes |
| Date: | 2024-10-15 18:59:57 |
| Message-ID: | Zw67rcVOqEa3Imwx@nathan |
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 02:23:15PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 02:21:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 11:04:50AM -0700, Jacob Champion wrote:
>> >> Maybe plus-minus (±), to represent the diff?
>>
>> > Uh, that might make sense to people who vie diffs often, but not the
>> > average reader of the document.
>>
>> Well, the § symbol hasn't got that much mnemonic value either.
>>
>> However ... wasn't one of the arguments for § that there's some
>> other project(s) already using it for this purpose? If so, I think
>> we'd be better off joining the crowd.
>
> I don't remember anyone else using it, but its purpose to point to a
> place with more detail makes logical sense.
Another option could be delta (Δ or δ). That's not LATIN-1, but I'd
imagine it's relatively well supported at this point.
--
nathan
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