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: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-12-18T18:10:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
> Presently it’s the same criteria as for the code - things deemed bug fixes get back-patched; pure enhancements do not.

Well, okay. Bear with me a moment because I need to calibrate to the
community norms.

Is the consensus that this is not a "bug fix"? Because I know what the
feature does, but I cannot understand the current paragraph without
rereading it several times.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> wrote:
> It depends if there is a wrong explanation then it makes sense to
> backpatch but as this is a wording improvement, it should be okay to
> commit it as HEAD-only patch.

I know it's okay, but I *want* to backpatch, and I would have
yesterday except for your email. Does that raise concerns or cause
problems in practice? (Should I drop this as not a battle really worth
having? Clearly nothing is exploding; I just don't get why docs
contributors have to wait ten months for improvements to land if
everyone says "oh yeah, that's better.")

> Would you like to take care of this?

Yes.

Thanks,
--Jacob