Re: 9.3 release notes suggestions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: 9.3 release notes suggestions
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Msg-id 20130504144422.GE5631@momjian.us
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In response to Re: 9.3 release notes suggestions  (Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>)
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On Sat, May  4, 2013 at 03:50:34PM +0300, Marti Raudsepp wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Thanks for the many suggestions on improving the 9.3 release notes.
> > There were many ideas I would have never thought of.  Please keep the
> > suggestions coming.
> 
> Some observations:
> 
> 1. "Allow CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS to succeed for a non-existent schema"
> 
> This should be DROP TABLE IF EXISTS. Clearly CREATE cannot succeed
> without a schema :)

Seems I can only blame my own commit message for that confusion.  :-( 
Fixed.

> 
> 2. "Dramatically reduce System V shared memory usage"
> 
> I find this description misleading. When reading for the first time,
> it sounds as if Postgres memory usage is reduced, but it's actually
> just using different kind of shared memory.
> 
> How about "Use mmap() instead of System V shared memory on Unix systems"

I changed it to:
       Dramatically reduce System V <link linkend="sysvipc">shared       memory</link> requirements (Robert Haas)
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