On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > On 12/08/2016 04:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: >>> On 12/01/2016 05:58 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: >>>> And in fairness, having such a "guide to changes" chapter in each >>>> release probably *would* be a good idea. But it would take resources to >>>> make that. The release notes are good, but having a more hand-holding >>>> version explaining incompatible changes in "regular sentences" would >>>> probably be quite useful to users. >> >>> We will have enough major changes in 10.0 to warrant writing one of >>> these. Maybe not as part of the official docs, but as a set of wiki >>> pages or similar. >> >> Seems to me this is exactly the release notes' turf. If you think the >> release notes aren't clear enough, step right up and help improve them. >> >> My own take on it is that the release notes are already a massive >> amount of work, and putting duplicative material in a bunch of other >> places isn't going to make things better, it'll just increase the >> maintenance burden. > > This would mean adding literally pages of material to the release notes. > In the past, folks have been very negative on anything which would make > the release notes longer. Are you sure?
As that's a per-version information, that seems adapted to me. There could be as well in the release notes a link to the portion of the docs holding this manual. Definitely this should be self-contained in the docs, and not mention the wiki. My 2c. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
