On Monday 29 November 2004 23:52, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> > don't we normally announce if initdb is required on new beta releases? We
> > should.
>
> It was sloppy that we didn't do that for beta5, and I apologize for it.
>
> One problem is that we don't have a defined place for per-beta-version
> release notes. The current structure of release.sgml doesn't cater for
> it --- and I doubt we want to permanently memorialize beta-version
> issues anyway. Any thoughts?
>
Do the beta changelogs ever end up any place permanent?
(ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v8.0.0beta/ChangeLog-Beta4-to-Beta5)
We could put a more prominant "**INITDB REQUIRED**" announcement in those when
it is required.
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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL