Re: PG 18 relnotes and RC1

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2025-08-30T22:25:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 06:04:16PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Actually, in this case, it caught an obvious missing attribution, so it
> > actually helped, so let's not change it.
> 
> Fair enough.  I'd still like to put in the bit about
> 
>  	my $major_version = $1;
> +	die "file name $file is not in the expected format\n"
> +	  unless defined $major_version;
> 
> because the existing code does not behave nicely at all if you
> point it at an incorrect file name.

Good fix, done.

> > I will add an attribution to
> > Peter Eisentraut now with the attached patch.  I also rewrote the item
> > to better match the surrounding text.
> 
> Hmm, this text has *two* attributions to Peter, and
> add_commit_links.pl disagrees with you on where to put the URL.

Oops, fixed.

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  1. Add list of major features to the v18 release notes.

  2. add_commit_links.pl: error out if missing major version number

  3. doc PG 18 relnotes: Add migration note about tsearch

  4. Remove ts_locale.c's lowerstr()