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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 19:21:42 +0100
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>,
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	Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com>,
	Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>, Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>,
	Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>,
	PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: New docs chapter on Transaction Management and related changes
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On 2022-Dec-01, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Patch reverted in all back branches.  I was hoping to get support for
> more aggressive backpatches of docs, but obviously failed.  I should
> have been clearer about my intent to backpatch, and will have to
> consider these issues in future doc backpatches.

FWIW I am in favor of backpatching doc fixes (even if they're not
completely trivial, such as 02d43ad6262d) and smallish additions of
content (63a370938).  But we've added a few terms to the glossary
(606c38459, 3dddb2a82) and those weren't backpatched, which seems
appropriate to me.

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Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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