Re: PG 18 beta1 release notes misses mention of pg_noreturn

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Steve Chavez <steve@supabase.io>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-07-24T22:22:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jul  2, 2025 at 06:23:52PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > On 2 Jul 2025, at 04:51, Steve Chavez <steve@supabase.io> wrote:
> 
> > While updating an extension to support 18beta1, I stumbled on the removal of `pg_attribute_noreturn()` in favor of `pg_noreturn`, which wasn't mentioned in the release notes.
> 
> That admittedly seems like something worth including since it's otherwise not
> documented anywhere.

I don't add changes to the release notes that would only affect
extension authors because there are many such changes, and such changes
would be meaningless to non-extension authors.  If we want to document
this, we would need an extension-author specific release notes list.

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