On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 07:43:09AM +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>
> Hello Bruce,
>
> > I have committed the first draft of the PG 13 release notes. You can
> > see them here:
> >
> > https://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-13.html
> >
> > It still needs markup, word wrap, and indenting. The community doc
> > build should happen in a few hours.
>
> Thanks for working on this.
>
> * Add CREATE DATABASE LOCALE option (Fabien COELHO)
> * Add function gen_random_uuid to generate version 4 UUIDs (Fabien COELHO)
>
> I'm not responsible for these, I just reviewed them. ISTM that the author
> for both is the committer, Peter Eisentraut.
>
> Maybe there is something amiss in the commit-log-to-release-notes script?
> My name clearly appears after "reviewed by:?"
Sorry, those were all my mistaken reading of the commit message.
>
> * "DOCUMENT THE DEFAULT GENERATION METHOD"
> => The default is still to generate data client-side.
My point is that the docs are not clear about this. Can you fix it?
> I do not see a "documentation" section, whereas there has been significant
> doc changes, such as function table layouts (Tom), glossary (Corey, Jürgen,
I did list the glossary.
> Roger, Alvarro), binary/text string functions (Karl) and possibly others.
I wasn't sure documentation _layout_ changes should be listed.
> Having a good documentation contributes to making postgres a very good tool,
> improving it is is not very glamorous, ISTM that such contributions should
> not be overlooked.
Yes, I would be good to know from others if that kind of stuff should
be included.
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