From: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
To: Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 08:33:10 -0400
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On 5/11/22 10:50 PM, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
> 2022年5月12日(木) 11:46 Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>:
>>
>> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 11:40:17AM +0900, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
>>> Looking at the release notes from the point of view of someone who has maybe
>>> not been following the long-running debate on removing exclusive backups:
>>>
>>> "Important-sounding backup thing is suddenly gone! What was that
>>> again? Hmm, can't
>>> find anything in the now-current Pg 15 docs [*], do I need to worry
>>> about this!?"
>>>
>>> [*] the backup section has removed all mention of the word "exclusive"
>>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-LOWLEVEL-BASE-BACKUP
>>>
>>> versus:
>>>
>>> "Long-deprecated thing is finally gone, ah OK whatever".
>>>
>>> I am thinking back here to a point in my working life where the
>>> release notes were reviewed
>>> (by a team including non-Pg specialists) for potential issues when
>>> considering a major
>>> upgrade - from experience the more clarity with this kind of change
>>> the better so
>>> as not to unnecessarily raise alarm bells.
>>
>> Ah, you are right. I thought I had "deprecated" in the text, but I now
>> see I did not, and we do have cases where we mention the deprecated
>> status in previous release notes, so the new text is:
>>
>> Remove long-deprecated exclusive backup mode (David Steele, Nathan
>> Bossart)
>
>
> That works, thanks!
A bit late to this conversation, but +1 from me.
--
-David
david@pgmasters.net
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