Re: release notes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: release notes
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Msg-id 4BF1709F.2070408@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: release notes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> OK ... I guess I was bothered because this has been referred to in a 
>> public press release about the Beta. The PLPerl security stuff is 
>> missing too, so I'll fix that also.
>>     
>
> The security stuff isn't relevant to the 9.0 notes, since it's already
> been fixed in a previous release.  In general we don't document bug
> fixes in a major release if they already appeared in previous
> back-patches; the major release notes are quite verbose enough without
> such duplication.  (In effect, the idea is that major release notes
> should represent the delta from the previous major release *as it stood
> at the time of the new major release*.)
>   


OK, then I will just remove the now redundant item regarding Safe.pm.

cheers

andrew



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