Re: 7.5 change documentation (was Re: cache control?)

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > If the TODO-list-with-dash isn't the correct place to have looked, is
> > there another list of committed changes for the next release?
>
> We tend to rely on the CVS commit logs as the definitive source. You
> can pull the info from the CVS server (I use cvs2cl.pl to format the
> results nicely), or read the archives of pgsql-committers.
>
> In theory there should be a section at the head of release.sgml
> mentioning the major changes done-so-far, but for various reasons this
> hasn't gotten installed in the 7.5 branch yet. (Look at the CVS
> versions during 7.4 development to see how we did it last time.)
>
> As far as the ARC change goes, I believe Jan still considers it a
> work-in-progress, so it may not be appropriate to list yet anyway.
> (Jan, where are you on that exactly?)
>
> > Do we need such a list? (I'd be happy to compile and maintain this if it
> > agreed that it is a good idea to have such a document or process as
> > separate from TODO - I'll be doing this anyway before I pass further
> > comments!)
>
> If you wanted to go through the existing 7.5 commits and write up a
> new done-so-far section, it'd save someone else (like me or Bruce)
> from having to do it sometime soon ...

Doesn't Robert Treat's News Bits list all the major changes weekly?
That would b e a good source.

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