From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Document DELETE/UPDATE command tag vs triggers |
Date: | 2011-10-12 17:57:10 |
Message-ID: | 201110121757.p9CHvAn15219@momjian.us |
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 19:58, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> Committed.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Do you think it should be backported to earlier versions too? As it
> > stands, the documentation is misleading.
>
> Well, I committed about five doc patches that day, and I had to decide
> for each one whether it was worth back-patching, and if so whether it
> was worth back-patching all the way or just to 9.1. (We typically
> back-patch things to all applicable versions or not at all, but for
> doc changes sometimes we go back exactly one release so that it will
> make its way onto the most current version of the web site docs a
> little bit more quickly.) I decided against back-patching this one,
> on the theory that we make many documentation improvements over the
> course of every major release cycle, and back-patching all of them
> creates more work for translators than can really be justified by the
> small number of people who read older versions of the documentation.
> It's an arguable point, of course, and I wouldn't have objected if
> someone else had chosen differently.
I agree with your analysis.
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