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Re: Draft release notes complete

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Vik Reykja <vikreykja@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-05-10T15:45:08Z
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  1. Expose track_iotiming information via pg_stat_statements.

  2. Rewrite GiST support code for rangetypes.

  3. Clean up a couple of box gist helper functions.

  4. Replace the "New Linear" GiST split algorithm for boxes and points with a

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:26:14AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Honestly, I'm leaning more and more toward the view that we should
>> just rip the names out entirely.

> We will need to make some decision in the next few hours.

I think this is a delicate question and we should *not* make a hasty
decision.  The release notes are almost certainly going to get worked
over quite a bit between now and 9.2 final; there is no need to assume
that the beta1 version has to reflect a final decision.

I'd vote for starting a separate thread to solicit people's opinions
on whether we need names in the release notes.  Is there anybody on
-hackers who would be offended, or would have a harder time persuading
$BOSS to let them spend time on Postgres if they weren't mentioned in
the release notes?  There'd still be a policy of crediting people in
commit messages of course, but it's not clear to me whether the release
note mentions are important to anybody.

			regards, tom lane