Re: pgsql: Remove pre-7.4 documentaiton mentions, now that 8.0 is the oldest

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Remove pre-7.4 documentaiton mentions, now that 8.0 is the oldest
Date: 2010-02-24 16:06:03
Message-ID: 8053.1267027563@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-committers pgsql-hackers

Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> The issue isn't the cost of us maintaining the SGML, it is the cost of
> individuals reading it, deciding if it applies to them, and then
> skipping to the next paragraph or section. If we had all this stuff in
> one isolated place, we would not have that issue and we could leave it
> there forever, but then few people would find it when they needed it.

That's a pretty lame argument when you are talking about removing
a few paragraphs out of 7.5MB (and counting) of documentation.
The incremental savings for readers who don't care is negligible. The
incremental cost for readers who needed the info could be very high.

regards, tom lane

In response to

Browse pgsql-committers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Thom Brown 2010-02-24 16:23:38 Re: pgsql: Revert removal of pre-7.4 documenation behavior mentions.
Previous Message Bruce Momjian 2010-02-24 15:54:43 Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Remove pre-7.4 documentaiton mentions, now that 8.0 is the oldest

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Bruce Momjian 2010-02-24 16:07:02 Re: Determining client_encoding from client locale
Previous Message Gokulakannan Somasundaram 2010-02-24 16:05:18 Re: A thought on Index Organized Tables