Re: Release Note Changes

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> >>> Let me give you the criteria I use for the release notes. The release
> >>> notes try to document all changes visible to the average user in a way
> >>> that is understandable to the average user.
> >> hmm I'm not so sure about that - there are a number of changes to psql
> >> that are not mentioned for example - like the addition of various new
> >> backslashcommands (\dF, \dFp, \dFt ,...) as part of the main tsearch2
> >> commit or a number of tab-complete improvements/additions (for tsearch
> >> as well as some other stuff).
> >
> > Yea, but when you say you are adding tsearch there is the assumption
> > that psql and pg_dump and tab completion will be updated to reflect
> > that.
>
> hmm well - tab.complete support was not done for a number of new
> SQL-level stuff with the main commits in the last few releases and was
> mostly added by different developers (like me) either in the same
> release cycle or even later.
> Anyway this "implicitly included in the main commit" adds a few
> interesting gotchas like having a "Build Options" section that has stuff
> like "--enable-profiling" and "--with-system-tzdata" but
> "--with-ossp-uuid" is in the contrib section and "--with-libxml" is
> missing (mostly because implicitly assumed as part of SQL/XML) as is
> "--with-gssapi"(part of the GSSAPI feature?) and "--with-libxslt (no idea ?)

These are new user-visible flags, not something like tab support which
you just kind of expect to work for every SQL command, and if it doesn't,
it is a bug.

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