Re: Getting to 8.3 beta1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Chris Browne
Subject Re: Getting to 8.3 beta1
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Msg-id 604phfq59r.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com
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In response to Getting to 8.3 beta1  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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teodor@sigaev.ru (Teodor Sigaev) writes:
>> * Draft release notes --- can't really ship a beta without these,
>> else beta testers won't know what to test.  Traditionally this has
>> taken a fair amount of time, but I wonder whether we couldn't use
>> http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/WhatsNew83
>> for at least the first cut.
>
> Pls, add:
> * Indexes (B-Tree and GiST) could be used for IS NULL clause
> * User-defined types now could have a type modifiers
> * nulls first/last could be specified in CREATE INDEX .. USING btree

The third item was already on the list; I have added the other two,
but don't have much explanation for them...
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