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Re: Proposal for changes to recovery.conf API

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-12-14T16:06:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Dec  9, 2016 at 09:46:44AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >> My own take on it is that the release notes are already a massive
> >> amount of work, and putting duplicative material in a bunch of other
> >> places isn't going to make things better, it'll just increase the
> >> maintenance burden.
> >
> > This would mean adding literally pages of material to the release notes.
> > In the past, folks have been very negative on anything which would make
> > the release notes longer.  Are you sure?
> 
> As that's a per-version information, that seems adapted to me. There
> could be as well in the release notes a link to the portion of the
> docs holding this manual. Definitely this should be self-contained in
> the docs, and not mention the wiki. My 2c.

Yes, that is the usual approach.

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