Re: [DOCS] Inheritance mention

2009-04-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Tom Lane  wrote:
> Euler Taveira de Oliveira  writes:
>> Bruce Momjian escreveu:
>>> Do people feel we should continue documenting that Postgres pre-7.1
>>> didn't reference child tables by default?
>>>
>> No. IMHO we should remove references to unsupported releases from 
>> documentation.
>
> "Unsupported releases" is far too strict a criterion for this.  For
> example, there are demonstrably still people using 7.2 (we had a
> question about it just last week).  They will still appreciate these
> notes when they get around to updating.
>
> Pre-7.1 might indeed be old enough to cut, but how much are we really
> saving?  Four sentences out of our current docs doesn't excite me ...

But since there's a doc set per version, it would make sense to stop
mentioning unsupported versions in the docs for supported versions,
no?  Or is this a FAQ thing we're talking about?

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Re: [DOCS] Inheritance mention

2009-04-13 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Marlowe  writes:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Tom Lane  wrote:
>> Pre-7.1 might indeed be old enough to cut, but how much are we really
>> saving?  Four sentences out of our current docs doesn't excite me ...

> But since there's a doc set per version, it would make sense to stop
> mentioning unsupported versions in the docs for supported versions,
> no?  Or is this a FAQ thing we're talking about?

The problem is what to tell people to read if they want to transition
from an unsupported version to a supported version.

If we really wanted to save some space, we could cut all the release
notes for pre-7.4 (soon pre-8.0) releases.  But somehow that doesn't
seem like a good idea.  What it would mainly accomplish is to make it
hard to find the old information when you wanted it.

regards, tom lane

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