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Re: small but useful patches for text search

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, jd@commandprompt.com, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
Date: 2009-03-26T02:13:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > So far taking the CVS logs and making a list of only the items we want
> > for the release notes took one day;  researching and rewording the  
> > items
> > so they are ready for the release notes took five days;  grouping them
> > into sections and rewording/combining, 1/2 a day, and adding SGML  
> > markup
> > will be another few hours.
> 
> FWIW, this is a thankless job, and I commend you for taking it on,  
> Bruce. Others may feel that there are better ways to do it, or to  
> track changes through time so it's easier to generate the changes list  
> at release time, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to have to do what  
> you do for this, so many thanks for putting together a useful list of  
> changes every release.

A preliminary version of the 8.4 release note are now online;  the
details are on my blog, including the release note creation process:

	http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog.html#March_25_2009

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