Re: 8.4 release notes proof reading 1/2

Guillaume Smet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just to warn people that I'm making a comprehensive proof reading of
> the release notes.
> 
> Here are the first comments:
> 
> - "This was available previously via a configure
> --enable-integer-datetimes (Neil Conway)" -> I don't think we need
> Neil's name in the details
> - "New semi- and ansi-joins (Tom)" -> s/ansi/anti/
> - "While semi-joins merely replace existing IN joins, anti-joins are a
> new capability for NOT IN and NOT EXIST clauses (Tom) This improves
> optimization possibilities." -> remove the "(Tom)", s/EXIST/EXISTS/
> - "IN and EXISTs now provide similar performance for equivalent
> clauses. " -> s/EXISTs/EXISTS/

Above fixed.

> - "A new constraint_exclusion setting, "partition", which matches this
> behavior." -> this sentence is weird

Yep, new wording:
      A new constraint_exclusion setting, "partition", was added to match this      behavior.

> - "Move that server statistics file into the subdirectory pg_stat_tmp"
> -> s/that/the/ ? I think this item can be grouped with the following
> one "Allow the location of the new pg_stat_tmp to be configured via
> the stats_temp_directory setting"

Agreed, new merged text:
    <listitem>     <para>      Move the server statistics file into the subdirectory pg_stat_tmp      and allow its
locationto be specified via stats_temp_directory (Magnus)     </para>
 
     <para>      This allows the statistics file to be placed in a RAM-resident      directory to reduce I/O
requirements. On startup/shutdown, the      file is copied to the top-level $PGDATA directory so it is preserved
betweenrestarts.     </para>    </listitem>
 

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