Re: 9.0 release notes done

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have completed the 9.0 release notes:
>
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-0.html
>
> Interestingly the 9.0 release notes contain 201 items, while the 8.4
> release notes contained 314 items. Of course we will be adding a few
> more 9.0 items before 9.0 final, but not a lot. The only explanation I
> can think of is that we were more focused during this release, and there
> were fewer minor cleanups. The migration issues section, for example,
> was significantly smaller than in 8.4.

I did some research on release note item counts for the past several
major releases and found 8.4 to be an abberation:

release-7.4.sgml
263
release-8.0.sgml
230
release-8.1.sgml
174
release-8.2.sgml
215
release-8.3.sgml
214
release-8.4.sgml
314
release-9.0.sgml
201

The 9.0 release item count closely matches the item counts from all
previous major releases, except 8.4. I think 8.4 was a
cleanup/restructuring release and that resulted in a high item count.
(The only two major new 8.4 features were window functions and common
table expressions/recursive queries.)

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