Re: 7.4 Press Release - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 06:46 pm, Joe Conway wrote:
> > 6) Where to put the complete changelog? On the developers site? We need
> > a place going forward that makes sense for both major and minor
> > releases...
>
> There should be a link to the changelog on the download page and the
> News item announcing the release, at a minimum.
>

Oh, for sure we are going to put the links up, I'm trying to figure out where
those links should point to..

>
>
> I sent this to Bruce about a week ago:
> Array and polymorphic functions: 7.4 Release Notes
> ---------------------------------------------------
<snip>

uh, a little too technical for this release ;-)


-- updated version --

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group is pleased to announce the
availability of version 7.4 of the PostgreSQL relational database management
system (RDBMS). This significant release represents the work of our world wide
network of over 100 developers and contributors over the last 9 months,
building on the unparalleled success of our 7.3 release in November
2002.

Significant advances in the new version include:

        - A complete redesign of error logging and reporting, providing
          developers with an SQL99 compliant mechanism for debugging and
          troubleshooting, while at the same time providing users real
          time suggestions on how to avoid error conditions in their
          applications.

        - A redesign of subquery handling with the IN() clause resulting
          in considerable speed improvements.

        - The implementation of SQL99 compliant Information Schema,
          providing developers with database, type, object, and
          configuration information in a standards compliant way.

        - Statement level triggers, enabling developers and users to define
          and customized behavior of the database when data is stored and
          manipulated.

        - Read only transactions, which bring a greater level of
          security to web and enterprise applications by protecting data
          from modification.

    Other improvements include:
        - Performance improvements to data warehousing functionality.
    - Enhanced implementation of functional indexes
    - Addition of polymorphic function arguments and return types
    - SQL99 complient INFORMATION SCHEMA
    - Significant enhancements to array data types
    - Completly overhauled and simplified documentation

As well as many other features and improvements.


A Timely Release

In making the release, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group had to
balance the large number of features planned for release with a
consistent release cycle, which provides loyal users with enhancements
as quickly as possible. <Insert quote from core developer reinforcing
this>

<Insert quote from user(s) about business critical nature of features
released in this version>

Source for this release is available at:
    http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors-ftp.html

More information on PostgreSQL is available in ten languages on the
PostgreSQL Advocacy website:
    http://advocacy.postgresql.org/

A complete list of changes in PostgreSQL version 7.3 can be found in the
HISTORY file included with the release, or available on the web at:
    ???

About PostgreSQL:
    With more than 16 years of development by hundreds of the world's
most generous and brilliant minds from the open source community,
PostgreSQL is the world's most advanced open source database. With its
long time support of an enterprise level feature set including
transactions, stored procedures, triggers, and subqueries, PostgreSQL is
being used by many of today's most demanding businesses and government
agencies.

    Corporations such as BASF, Red Hat, Afilias Limited (supporting the
technical back end of the .org and .info domains), Cisco, Chrysler, and
3Com rely on PostgreSQL's rock solid performance record and open
development process. PostgreSQL is available under a BSD License for
both commercial and non-commercial use.

To find out more about PostgreSQL or to download it, please visit:
    http://www.postgresql.org/

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Questions/Comments:

1. Should we drop the "A timely release" paragraph?

2. Need end - user quotes

3. Need a URL for the changelog

4. Still looking for new companies

5. no mention of replication untill the discussion finishes on -hackers.