Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:04:40 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>,
	Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>,
	Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>,
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Subject: Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes
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On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 12:23:21PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 9:09 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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."
> 
> I wouldn't mention either this or "Remove some unused SPI macros".

I mentioned the SPI macros because that could lead to breakage, and
there might be applications, as well as extensions, that use it.

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