Re: PG 11 feature count

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 05:01:17PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2018-05-17 19:56:43 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > > On 18 May 2018 at 11:29, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > >> I regularly track the number of items documented in each major release.
> > >> I use the attached script. You might be surprised to learn that PG 11
> > >> has the lowest feature count of any release back through 7.4:
> >
> > > Interesting. I wonder how much of that drop over the past few years
> > > can be accounted for by the fact that easier stuff tends to get
> > > implemented first, and now we're all just left with the hard stuff.
> >
> > I don't think the "features" are all the same size, either.
> > Procedures and JIT are both pretty major things ...
>
> Yea. You could easily break down either feature into at least 10
> sub-features that would independently be listed if they happend in
> subsequent releases... I don't think counting items in the release
> notes yields something particularly meaningful.

Agreed, but I reported the number in case someone can find some meaning
in it.

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