Re: Release note bloat is getting out of hand

On 02/02/2015 05:39 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2/1/15 11:10 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think it's time we changed the policy of including all release notes
>> back to the beginning in Appendix E.
> 
> I share the sentiment that the release notes *seem* too big, but the
> subsequent discussion shows that it's not clear why that's really a
> problem.  Exactly what problem are we trying to fix?

At a rough count of lines, the release notes for unsupported versions
are about 18% of documentation overall (47K out of 265K lines).  So
they're not insubstantial.  Compared to the total size of the tarball,
though ...

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