Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:09:27 -0500
From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>,
	Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>,
	pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 05:33:18PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 10:01:28AM +0200, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
>> Another new API that is useful for extension authors is the following
>> one (I'm obviously biased since I'm the author, and I don't know if
>> there's still time):
>> 
>>     Add macros for looping through a List without a ListCell.
> 
> Can someone else comment on the idea of adding this release note item? 
> I don't feel confident in my ability to evaluate this.  I obviously did
> not see it as significant the first time.

I'm not sure precisely what criteria you use to choose what goes in the
release notes, but this one seems like a judgement call to me.  My initial
reaction is that it shouldn't be included, but I do see some items with a
similar scope, such as "Remove some SPI macros."

-- 
nathan