Re: 8.4 release draft: a new tack

From: Ned Lilly <ned(at)nedscape(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Williams <joshwilliams(at)ij(dot)net>, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.4 release draft: a new tack
Date: 2009-06-01 22:17:03
Message-ID: 4A24535F.8090903@nedscape.com
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On 6/1/2009 2:41 PM Josh Berkus wrote:
> What I'm hearing about from users is that each one has their own
> favorite feature (out of the 293 in the release) which will make their
> life vastly easier. The cited favorite features are extremely diverse,
> ranging from column permissions to the SSL cleanup to partial GIN
> matches to CIText to \df.
>
> I'm wondering if that should be the "story" of our release. "PostgreSQL:
> easier to manage than ever before." It would give some badly-needed
> structure to the release.

+1.

And in the wake of the MySQL/Sun/Oracle saga, it would be nice to use the word "easy" more often. Fair or unfair, that's been the knock on Postgres vs. MySQL for some time.

Cheers,
Ned

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