Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gqmpc-0006UA-IE for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:35:12 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gqmpa-0001mW-BG for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:35:10 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gqmpa-0001mP-5J for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:35:10 +0000 Received: from meldrar.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::31]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gqmpX-0006MW-Pp for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:35:09 +0000 Received: from pool-96-250-83-19.nycmny.fios.verizon.net ([96.250.83.19] helo=Ph33r-Retina.home) by meldrar.postgresql.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gqmpV-0005oC-3V; Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:35:07 +0000 Subject: Re: Release note trimming: another modest proposal To: Tom Lane Cc: Bruce Momjian , Magnus Hagander , Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org References: <19252.1533509841@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20190125233111.GE13803@momjian.us> <16080.1548459680@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20190125234614.GH13803@momjian.us> <8fd2ae88-49de-26f3-def3-e4381cb7e774@postgresql.org> <21920.1548515166@sss.pgh.pa.us> <402d07a0-227b-71b7-0ecd-0b6c379e3cd0@postgresql.org> <18776.1549296730@sss.pgh.pa.us> <31322.1549315549@sss.pgh.pa.us> <856e0ec6-b42a-df70-56ca-f6c5ebf39903@postgresql.org> <25039.1549319008@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: "Jonathan S. Katz" Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Autocrypt: addr=jkatz@postgresql.org; keydata= mQINBFtShwABEAC7PNHDUOTYuifpUCk23KqfxdQQkn4nkoxOXRK0+rAj36FiwqGB4TJFuOVZ sDFAEiSlC8Jt4y5Cs7B5tetT8JNd2cs6zp/udMJJDz9d65O9PDpdlMgAmIiTzpLlSdx8FG56 DTksaDv1d8j3cTJPSE4/fWSxqzA7o3Y9UuL7atZPrzfImgpRKs0of7elIHwOa8GucjyhYqcR h60wFBJc2KXqQdDYRTZy43DSnY/0VNc0omiH355fustvpm+m5HjD3w7qZyfN3fpKJpnX1LCF f3MnPHaDGITIYGRCBXvf0UqUtD6OEVWPv2C2gyqWMIpWmZTOgDufltKyIByKBoS9x0PlFkij 04X3KODCngt+N8Ssc9OICc6QSxhjoP48PYPdmiTmkrGuf0LX084wj1xeo1NX7XxZK39F6dTJ DhsIiW0sNS0xMxQHLHG9VLbPjx3SANQBh6BuryPz5ZupW9/TIDmkvprtU/oXfKgtfYm3fxmk EctxbWrEPsFTFPyuMqQu6l+xyQv0s1VLZfjNWaua6H1/gGoIt6kRnn5qMXDVVpijuWkHbv7G ngaQMd258UrrOEHnnjzhQ7jxMWV9D+emxbAtlIxnYvCWlV4IwAQhEHfvudqYaIY3hNWrvQ6H GB2KXoTZYN9g5djm14/5nj1IU5zOcovkjJnKhoo9iStnpFF2cwARAQABtCdKb25hdGhhbiBT LiBLYXR6IDxqa2F0ekBwb3N0Z3Jlc3FsLm9yZz6JAlQEEwEIAD4CGwMFCQeGH4AFCwkIBwIG FQoJCAsCBBYCAwECHgECF4AWIQT6hLaVryv3miBkP/HxBJxynxxlJwUCW1KJJQAKCRDxBJxy nxxlJwjrD/kBgqsW4QpNpTFw7ifRokZV08CCX4huPBJQ91rrv+UEWlEcotFBHVkYyHnpzARl tcZxhJ9CbFxjniH9cOTty5T/O1yolbOHtZSW8Z8aWV6BVEbjMb+BFxSSLm7RnvJdzQbGCZq2 ZZvfVpB6z3EHYph4KDdVKvMFjoLskxmdS1DE0tE3zTxvoQsi24Q+HOS07kUjs6fsu/WICMfz mgO++AWG9Y0CvN0mm4TkujESzyKM9E5irD+leEMIcddl51Aa2c/VMfBXQbRmpHIgUFTmuHQD CnQih+9i3OJAksDg66SP8a7yiXv5mwvyDi1EfTGVKYR2j+pwyjwnC3oIbvDMmB3uTn2JIjnT iZKPVtAcAylXjubFltihQgNyuShdP4W+kBwZizhUFqUVL8Anx+KoytYmJPfMRFLGuK4obXKq a2ZS3k9KB+H+isOx2nFJOsc7V360Zp1DVaNmuiK10TT6QndShSPaqkJqFtCb6r92rZ9sZM/L 3vtCI4Rrl3Pt1MgtENXupS8gZpJnAYS0j5A1PAZ09r6ANoaeMHspF+5J5fOHeEvqphXr36mm a83Vl1t4orPb0+QmmijmlpseDU63M88Aw5p3c4qj7t8Qr2EZ5zrn7/sFn5wOfbs8Nymxafif QCnlV2vg9p0m7vSk/yLJ4PFZvs52FgqAGRCdRn0s2EC99bkCDQRbUocAARAAv8ho/toQ9DG3 j4f9h9n1aRHr2FlviN2Utpy6L8+dfDggO0geilmkGQOolZ2E60gGfye/kUtF9W3NByO4hxDR 9u6qbOXcdqnuA+cc68EfqlWFJrVtYFxt0h4ElWYOYnIezKthriWch/FY70FGrxs3z8UHOHq5 0wBW433eTvZm90WixBiXEt2v1DgW4Vr3ymfO7Aap/IYyPuE4JzgudAuAl0HKPyNEHWHG1dAb jX1RiCw9gknIDWQOF0B4UAaJctWGVcnZ3A2ULwNGMa1P9ZJlBWf1vcj01aiHMU0yQ7JjJiSp vfm9eM0uSLwRdDrJjyl5ZZqVumjdv2SMNQ8GvYRbEMys3GGDSt9zXgfCSUnPnJfYxjzBHRI6 x44Wfsx8S6hWxepOogCJJ/g67Bk9mY8YV4klWIXDJVOL5jnBC09DbsZG81JaE2QxB8Y7W36Z Mroi9XMxg3s805hQAQUvdG/poU8hN8BWdrnTm/+4eQQp7gDY1ePDmGM6bJC+OHOSnFtR/f+7 0zpKJ10cc7cBygGnl1yR3KjhFyAWUFvP4ZGziKCcpMwXZfe9PGuyA/YOubMphxIn3YsK2wrd faKZYX2GMZCZhMMcvx9IpQrxIJgU+VlwXu/O+Lk10VIPcxPJJwmpdI6HzcS8ZgG6IMcC444X XTuLaP8j2mgcMvYak3ScCykAEQEAAYkCPAQYAQgAJhYhBPqEtpWvK/eaIGQ/8fEEnHKfHGUn BQJbUocAAhsMBQkHhh+AAAoJEPEEnHKfHGUnReMP/RA2UhGQj+G4uBshkRLjpRysabdPqgQB dEBk6wYbio88Wg/2/hgY7UzmDDEwX3sZfQDcrI6+vIobI8uqstZID+WgAAa1JLfChMyVQnSy 0zfWMOABXscc5tGuvFRZvJklTissMFjXUwaREEKp4ZikTvJ/62MCjSdtrUhnPLvoTsHTKRKD ichE+b5A54alwsubTijw12O6N22r5IjZiiSZV0u7dsShyKw+7wCSax9fuBoE43NMYf+dnjMK nerAQYUcZWYMnk+EC8RaqYAxv6XZ2tKx1AkGGktwkQIBwrz9IlDSvJ3LWJ2UIIuLRTdngNgg GIL4zzuUa2F56FqskQIuYMaNETk6LYfalBDQ6TVLAcgCPQxp4k4i/PRsZ3lZ2ZhRHRYciOvm kp+I6EfHwllQpYrWs1thluBGqlJSVJgKl0IOFvKLsQ6KKfqzAwh6FxrO5qajp4viNIgtWoFw O5Bp0jgFTbH2OrMWIRfUdUCH1Djbuo65svhNj7FNsQVYzHDI+Nd1I/LOBoPc3UorRMF2M4JV kUR7skOHWUbPTSNUr7qc14NSMY3PKjGeVGAsBVHBPvmRx/Ss2tW/TpJWpxg4pmquFQSXuaYh Yf4FN8Sxy320pcr+FqN8AhZkYJcNY82OTtR5VEKRC/mYcyq61qXIKqngydn79bJjGxHipxyF FmEC Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 17:35:00 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <25039.1549319008@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Rz84Mzy8Iqs0uStM5cwzg0JdbO1GUXFE0" List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --Rz84Mzy8Iqs0uStM5cwzg0JdbO1GUXFE0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="yBLMMwb8i5uJkqgKZVBgEEcZYjll1r7wa"; protected-headers="v1" From: "Jonathan S. Katz" To: Tom Lane Cc: Bruce Momjian , Magnus Hagander , Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org Message-ID: Subject: Re: Release note trimming: another modest proposal References: <19252.1533509841@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20190125233111.GE13803@momjian.us> <16080.1548459680@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20190125234614.GH13803@momjian.us> <8fd2ae88-49de-26f3-def3-e4381cb7e774@postgresql.org> <21920.1548515166@sss.pgh.pa.us> <402d07a0-227b-71b7-0ecd-0b6c379e3cd0@postgresql.org> <18776.1549296730@sss.pgh.pa.us> <31322.1549315549@sss.pgh.pa.us> <856e0ec6-b42a-df70-56ca-f6c5ebf39903@postgresql.org> <25039.1549319008@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <25039.1549319008@sss.pgh.pa.us> --yBLMMwb8i5uJkqgKZVBgEEcZYjll1r7wa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2/4/19 5:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > "Jonathan S. Katz" writes: >> On 2/4/19 4:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> After a bit more thought, I'm inclined to propose that the policy be >>> that we *don't* update the surviving back branches for branch retirem= ent. >=20 >> ...so I guess in turn, we would not update back branches with newer >> releases as well, i.e. adding references about 12 to 10? That makes >> sense, and eases some of the burden on releases. >=20 > No, I definitely didn't have any intention of putting in forward > references to later releases. That seems a bit weird. Agreed. Anyway, I like the overall solution: +1 Thanks for writing the patch, Jonathan --yBLMMwb8i5uJkqgKZVBgEEcZYjll1r7wa-- --Rz84Mzy8Iqs0uStM5cwzg0JdbO1GUXFE0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE+oS2la8r95ogZD/x8QSccp8cZScFAlxYvhQACgkQ8QSccp8c ZSda9A/9EhIo+g8xquNqetv9C5QxvjzMKXqYuVlFvpgU5kPySIOXPTFXTau4LoaV FGsNg/e2XoV/bqaRsw1GWg7sQQLSsE2xJ4h8Idpu6EF4JZJ6/A78BBscdqoOi/PP gxpSsTHZakuXlH/bwKDNX5DMbjTto3JA1GFpe8Bm53um+72E4oG4So7KhjOAc1hX 9XHpknZ1aFyrKFWXH4r5vtz7STkFrQmI+oD80Ym0UzNa/4qNw8aUc7f0NXU1d8qA HDbYzs6Cy5ExKKQ46P0e4qq17hBSUEw9nzyybkYdKB5Bo8DrnOXlPIzTfmlfmFRa 4kgSZuKj4Gen2r48PN6wSZDhk+vPCHQF9zIeKHqb4b2nmmvYa2TlAEhbWJKVpl5k zweSZKhk9SW/1BqdCSZ5AE2kaqhDiKKuADqQ9Yz0f1RezMXhty5YXWHlR5hfoUsr Gn1uW1vig72zG1zkB0UAuWOHRwmfRCsXYe0tweqaGBKfk85TRjfazRTxGxiGzIWs nl0yw0zRnUoDi8w8GkiaCIxDLRJjhGbCSD6zwoxXOVSFXqdBGg9mL0NpUxC7kDZx KLaQOt3+n28ebhwNbVH3whceA7pzVi8plrocxciHgKEpRXxDLYucwPL84RlTtU1s a9kyhVVrLaEdIsMA3Nz9ahi8Ksik01dUDFgdFJ3V+ssuEj0NtZA= =fSyP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Rz84Mzy8Iqs0uStM5cwzg0JdbO1GUXFE0--