Re: First Draft of 8.2 Release

[Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>]

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Ron, all,
>>
>>> On 8/31/06, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> wrote:
>>>>  "PostgreSQL's extensible architecture has lead to a large community
>>>>   of extensions ranging from additional procedural languages,
>>>>   interfaces to external systems, new index types, and replication
>>>>   and high availability tools that are hosted on the official
>>>>   PostgreSQL community project site www.pgfoundry.org.   Community
>>>>   projects that have made significant advances in the 8.2 release
>>>>   cycle include [pgpool|pljava|full_disjunction - whatever the list
>>>> was]."
>>
>> Thanks!   I don't think that can go in the main release, though,
>> unless we're really hurting for content.  But it can certainly go on
>> the Press Page.

Yeah it was too verbose.  Here's similar in about half the words;
and no doubt could be trimmed further.

 "PostgreSQL's extensible architecture enabled extensions ranging from
  new procedural languages to replication and high availability tools
  hosted on the official PostgreSQL project site www.pgfoundry.org."

> We need to find a way to promote some of these projects in the 8.2
> release. Although I think the above is a bit verbose, lets make sure we
>  do include reference to pgfoundry.

I think the thoughts that should come across in the press release
are (a) postgresql's extensibility is better than others, and
(b) pgfoundry's the right place to find such extensions.