Re: 8.4 release draft: a new tack - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Ned Lilly
Subject Re: 8.4 release draft: a new tack
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Msg-id 4A24535F.8090903@nedscape.com
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In response to 8.4 release draft: a new tack  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On 6/1/2009 2:41 PM Josh Berkus wrote:
> What I'm hearing about from users is that each one has their own
> favorite feature (out of the 293 in the release) which will make their
> life vastly easier.   The cited favorite features are extremely diverse,
> ranging from column permissions to the SSL cleanup to partial GIN
> matches to CIText to \df.
>
> I'm wondering if that should be the "story" of our release. "PostgreSQL:
> easier to manage than ever before."  It would give some badly-needed
> structure to the release.

+1.

And in the wake of the MySQL/Sun/Oracle saga, it would be nice to use the word "easy" more often.  Fair or unfair,
that'sbeen the knock on Postgres vs. MySQL for some time. 

Cheers,
Ned

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