Thread: Fwd: [webmaster] Documentation > What's New still refers to version 8.1

I'm tired of seeing emails like this, can someone write up some verbage to
stick on the page?  Please??

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Subject: [webmaster] Documentation > What's New  still refers to version 8.1
Date: Wednesday 03 January 2007 08:17
From: Pit Mueller <fmi-soft@gmx.de>
To: webmaster@postgresql.org

See:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew

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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Robert Treat wrote:
> I'm tired of seeing emails like this, can someone write up some verbage to
> stick on the page?  Please??

Wow, 8.1 information is still there?  Yea, that needs updating _badly_.

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> Subject: [webmaster] Documentation > What's New  still refers to version 8.1
> Date: Wednesday 03 January 2007 08:17
> From: Pit Mueller <fmi-soft@gmx.de>
> To: webmaster@postgresql.org
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> See:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew
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> Robert Treat
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> TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
>        choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>          http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                               http://www.enterprisedb.com

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We usually get this from the advocacy/press guys, I don't think we did
this time. How abuot we just replace the link with one to the release
notes until we have something?

//Magnus

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:09:01PM -0500, Robert Treat wrote:
> I'm tired of seeing emails like this, can someone write up some verbage to
> stick on the page?  Please??
>
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> Subject: [webmaster] Documentation > What's New  still refers to version 8.1
> Date: Wednesday 03 January 2007 08:17
> From: Pit Mueller <fmi-soft@gmx.de>
> To: webmaster@postgresql.org
>
> See:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> --
> Robert Treat
> Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
>        choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
>        match

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> We usually get this from the advocacy/press guys, I don't think we did
> this time. How abuot we just replace the link with one to the release
> notes until we have something?

Seems reasonable.

/D

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 08:35:09AM +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > We usually get this from the advocacy/press guys, I don't think we did
> > this time. How abuot we just replace the link with one to the release
> > notes until we have something?
>
> Seems reasonable.

Done for now. We still want a "proper page" to put up there, but this
takes care of some of the uglyness.

//Magnus

Magnus,

Oh, I'd forgotten about this page.  Really need to get it into the major
release schedule to update it.

Is there a version of the old page cached somewhere so that I can work with
it?

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Magnus,
>
> Oh, I'd forgotten about this page.  Really need to get it into the major
> release schedule to update it.
>
> Is there a version of the old page cached somewhere so that I can work with
> it?

Sure, via Wayback machine:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20060426075213/www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>          http://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                               http://www.enterprisedb.com

  + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 08:03:21AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Magnus,
>
> Oh, I'd forgotten about this page.  Really need to get it into the major
> release schedule to update it.
>
> Is there a version of the old page cached somewhere so that I can work with
> it?

It's still upp on the website, just not linked in.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew

//Magnus