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Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes

Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>

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From: Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-05-12T02:50:37Z
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2022年5月12日(木) 11:46 Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>:
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 11:40:17AM +0900, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
> > Looking at the release notes from the point of view of someone who has maybe
> > not been following the long-running debate on removing exclusive backups:
> >
> > "Important-sounding backup thing is suddenly gone! What was that
> > again? Hmm, can't
> > find anything in the now-current Pg 15 docs [*], do I need to worry
> > about this!?"
> >
> > [*] the backup section has removed all mention of the word "exclusive"
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-LOWLEVEL-BASE-BACKUP
> >
> > versus:
> >
> > "Long-deprecated thing is finally gone, ah OK whatever".
> >
> > I am thinking back here to a point in my working life where the
> > release notes were reviewed
> > (by a team including non-Pg specialists) for potential issues when
> > considering a major
> > upgrade - from experience the more clarity with this kind of change
> > the better so
> > as not to unnecessarily raise alarm bells.
>
> Ah, you are right.  I thought I had "deprecated" in the text, but I now
> see I did not, and we do have cases where we mention the deprecated
> status in previous release notes, so the new text is:
>
>         Remove long-deprecated exclusive backup mode (David Steele, Nathan
>         Bossart)


That works, thanks!

Regards

Ian Barwick

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Commits

  1. Doc: last minute adjustment to the release notes

  2. Doc: more tweaking of v15 release notes.

  3. Doc: further adjust notes about pg_upgrade_output.d.

  4. Doc: add list of major features to the v15 release notes.

  5. relnotes: update item about public schema permission change

  6. relnotes: update ordered partition scan item

  7. relnotes: add Heikki to UTF8 item

  8. relnotes: improve UTF8 text item in relation to ASCII

  9. relnotes: add null logical replication item

  10. relnotes: adjust several logical replication items and FK text

  11. relnotes: mention non-exclusive backup mode was deprecated

  12. relnotes: add author to in-memory sorts item

  13. relnotes: update for non-exclusive backup mode removal

  14. relnote: improve sorting entries

  15. relnotes: adjustments from Álvaro Herrera

  16. relnotes: update foreign key partition and add sort items

  17. relnotes: more adjustments

  18. relnotes: logical replication permissions checked by subscrib.

  19. relnotes: adjustments

  20. relnotes: remove sequence replication and update 'postgres -C'

  21. relnote: extensive updates

  22. relnotes: "training" -> "trailing"

  23. Standardize references to Zstandard as <productname>

  24. pgstat: Update docs to match the shared memory stats reality.

  25. Raise a WARNING for missing publications.

  26. Skip empty transactions for logical replication.

  27. Optionally disable subscriptions on error.

  28. Allow root-owned SSL private keys in libpq, not only the backend.

  29. Use COPY FREEZE in pgbench for faster benchmark table population.