Re: Draft release notes complete

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Vik Reykja <vikreykja@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-05-10T12:45:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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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


On 05/10/2012 08:28 AM, Vik Reykja wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net 
> <mailto:andrew@dunslane.net>> wrote:
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>     On 05/10/2012 08:11 AM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
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>         I'm not really sure why you've listed Daniel Farina as a
>         co-author of the pg_stat_statements normalisation feature. He
>         did a good job of reviewing it, but he didn't actually
>         contribute any code.
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>     It looks like reviewers have been given credit throughout.
>
>
> Which could be good incentive to become more involved in reviewing for 
> some people.


Right, but I think it would be good to identify them explicitly as 
reviewers if we're going to include the names. Otherwise it could enable 
people to claim authorship of something they did not in fact author, and 
even without that would dilute the claim to authorship of the actual 
author(s).

cheers

andrew