Re: Draft release notes complete

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Draft release notes complete
Date: 2012-05-10 17:14:00
Message-ID: 20120510171400.GV16881@momjian.us
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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:50:14AM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 10.05.2012 06:11, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >I have completed my draft of the 9.2 release notes, and committed it to
> >git.
>
> Thanks! I committed a few trivial fixes, below are a few more I
> wasn't sure about:
>
> >* Add support for range data types (Jeff Davis, Tom Lane, Alexander Korotkov)
> >
> >The range data type records a lower and upper bound, and supports comparisons like contains, overlaps, and intersection.
>
> /s/comparisons/operations/ ?
>
> >* Allow a user to cancel queries in other owned sessions using pg_cancel_backend() (Magnus Hagander)
> >
> >Previously only the superuser could cancel queries.
>
> "other owned sessions" is a bit ambiguous. It reads to me like
> "possessed sessions" or "0wned sessions". It's not clear it means
> sessions owned by the same user. How about "... to cancel queries in
> his other sessions, using ..." ? Or:
>
> * Allow a non-superuser to cancel queries in another backend using
> pg_cancel_backend(), as long as the victim backend belongs to the
> same user
>
> Previously only the superuser could cancel queries.
>
>
> >* Change default names of triggers to fire action triggers before check triggers (Tom Lane)
> >
> >This allows default-named check triggers to check post-action rows.
>
> That's quite a mouthful :-). I don't understand what it means.
>
> >In psql tab completion, complete SQL key words based on COMP_KEYWORD_CASE setting and the perhaps case of the partially-supplied word (Peter Eisentraut, Fujii Masao)
>
> Which is correct spelling, "keyword" or "key word"? We seem to use
> both in the docs. "Keyword" sounds much better to me, but I think I
> might be more prone to write words together than native English
> speakers.

I have made adjustments based on your comments in the attached, applied
patch.

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