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.) -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com PG East: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers