Re: DOCS - Clarify the publication 'publish_via_partition_root' default value.

Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>

From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>

To: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>

Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-12-11T23:12:52Z

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doc: Improve description of publish_via_partition_root
- e2aae8d68f6b 19 (unreleased) landed
- d2c6ff7c525b 18.2 landed
- 862f83f3aa40 17.8 landed
- b95bdde5119d 16.12 landed
- 988612c9c27f 15.16 landed
- 5f43df007485 14.21 landed

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why not just say clearly what the default value is?
> >
> > PSA: a patch to do that.

LGTM. (In fact I've read that paragraph three times and still cannot
get it to stick in my head, despite having done a fair amount of
thinking about publish_via_partition_root, so if you have further
improvement ideas I'm all ears.)

--Jacob