Re: 8.1 release notes

Michael Paesold wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I have compiled the 8.1 release notes and converted them to SGML at:
> > 
> >   http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/release.html#RELEASE-8-1
> > 
> > I still need to add markup and cleanup, but it is good enough for
> > review and for beta1.  I will work on it more tomorrow.
> 
> I think this is an understatement and does not really say what was done:
> Replace pg_shadow and pg_group by new role-capable catalogs pg_authid 
> and pg_auth_members.
> 
> I would include something like "Implement SQL-compliant ROLE support...".

Yes, I still need to add text for some of the items.

> I believe "Make default_with_oids default to false" and "Change 
> add_missing_from to 'false'" should be mentioned in the "Migration" section.
> This section should say "Migration to version 8.1" instead of "Migration 
> to version 8.0".
> 
> "This caused CREATE DATABASE to sometimes fail because a new database 
> can not be created if anyone else is in the template database."
> Shouldn't this read:
> "This caused CREATE DATABASE to sometimes fail because a new database 
> could not be created if anyone else was in the template database."
> 
> "With this change, the default connection database is now 'postgres', 
> meaning is is much less likely someone will be using template1 during 
> CREATE DATABASE."
> ... meaning it is much less likely ...
> 
> There are some items that are appended to the last one. E.g. "Fix 
> interval division and multiplication (Bruce)"
> Other times, the additional comments have their own bullet.

Above fixed.

> These I don't really understand:
> - Improve rtree index capabilities and performance (Neil)
> - Replace rtree index code with code from /contrib/rtree_gist (Tom)
> 
> So first Neil improved the performance for rtree, then rtree was 
> replaced with rtree_gist? So Neil's optimizations are gone?

I was wondering about this too. I will add a ? to the item.

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