Re: PG 11 feature count

On 18/05/18 11:29, Bruce Momjian 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:
>
> 7.4 280
> 8.0 238
> 8.1 187
> 8.2 230
> 8.3 237
> 8.4 330
> 9.0 252
> 9.1 213
> 9.2 250
> 9.3 187
> 9.4 217
> 9.5 200
> 9.6 220
> 10 194
> 11 167
>
> I try to use the same criteria in choosing items each year, though I
> certainly am not perfectly accurate.
>
> One reason the PG 11 count is lower is because the the major items for
> this release are not listed at the top yet, but that is only around six
> items.
>
I wonder what the ranking would be in terms of:

1. Complexity
2. Usefulness
3. Lines-of-Code
4. ...

Suspect Lines-of-code is the one most easily measured, but the least useful!

Whereas: Usefulness is probably the most valuable, but the most
difficult to measure -- for obvious reasons...

Cheers,
Gavin