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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Release note trimming: another modest proposal
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2018 15:27:35 -0400
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I wrote:
> Hm, so the only objection I can think of is that this results in the old
> release notes only being available on the website; there's no other way
> to access them, short of digging around in the git repo.  But maybe that's
> enough.

Actually, a concrete reason why that might not be good is that it results
in having a single point of failure: once we remove branch N's relnotes
from the active branches, the only copy of that data is the one in the
archive table the docload script is filling.  Given, say, a bug in the
docload script that causes it to overwrite the wrong table entries,
can we recover?

This doesn't seem insoluble, but it might mean a bit more work to do
to ensure we can revert back to an earlier version of that table.

			regards, tom lane

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