Re: First stab at 9.0 release announcement

On 18 June 2010 20:20, Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> wrote:

> josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com (Josh Berkus) writes:
> > Here's the beginning of drafting the release announcement. Note that
> > the lists of features will change after I get the results of the
> > survey, but I didn't have in mind to change the basic format.
> >
> > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/90ReleaseDraft
> >
> > In general, I don't feel a need for a lot of hyperbole. I think the
> > huge number of major features speak for themselves. So I'd rather
> > focus on features and quotes.
> >
> > Feedback by the marketing geeks (Rob, Sean?) especially wanted.
>
> I did a little bit of rewording, and added in (for convenience),
> linkage to the release notes. (It's handy for anyone reading the
> announcement!)
>
> I don't see any features that are in the release notes that seem like
> they strongly need to be added. The ones that seem plausible, but
> just a bit too marginal for the announcement, to me:
>
> - deferrable unique constraints
> - VACUUM FULL improvements
> - binary upgrade
> --
>

A few proposals

"The PostgreSQL Global Development Team is proud to announce the release of
version 9.0. "

Maybe "PostgreSQL 9.0" instead of "version 9.0"?

Anonymous functions instead of anonymous blocks? Else put the word "code"
before blocks.

Instead of "driving PostgreSQL's competition" use a synonym for "driving" as
it sounds weird after just mentioning "drive" in the previous sentence....
or change the one in the previous sentence... I dunno.

As for the "blah blah blah" bits... look good to me ;)

Thom