Le mercredi 28 octobre 2009 à 15:13:06, Thom Brown a écrit : > 2009/10/28 Adrian Klaver <aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> Entirely new features are easier to deal with though. I still would, > >> however, want something like a detailed version of Josh's post which > >> breaks down where the changes have occurred. It seems quite scattered > >> and unclear at the moment. > >> > >> Thom > > > > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-8-5.html > > Thanks Adrian. I just wasn't looking hard enough obviously :) That > list still doesn't appear to be explicit enough though as we have > "Multiple improvements in contrib/hstore, including raising limits on > keys and values". What exactly is meant by limit, what was this limit > before and what has it been raised to? > > Similarly: "Fix encoding handling in binary input function of xml > type." What was the problem before? > > And: "Allow the collection of statistics on sequences". How would > your average end-user see whether these statistics are being colelcted > on sequences? And are these statistics actually used anywhere yet? > > I'm not really asking for the answer to those questions. I'm pointing > out that it isn't clear (at least to me) how to determine what exactly > has been fixed in order to test it. This doesn't apply to everything > listed as some of it is quite clear, like "pg_dump/pg_restore --clean > now drops large objects." > You're completely right. But release notes never intended to be this. What you need is more a "visual" tour, and I don't think anyone did write such a thing for any PostgreSQL releases (but I may be proven wrong). I wrote something like this in french for 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4. The last two were even published in a french Linux magazine. I suppose other people from other countries do the same. The advocacy group would do a good thing if it starts working on this kind of document. I could probably work on this too. -- Guillaume. http://www.postgresqlfr.org http://dalibo.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
