Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:37:51 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>,
	PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PG 18 release notes draft committed
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 08:30:19AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 01:07:56PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > > On 17 Sep 2025, at 12:58, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > 
> > > Yes, clearly we need to fix the description we have now.  However, we
> > > have already updated this item twice, so I think we need to be careful
> > > to get it right this time:
> > 
> > Maybe we should move to a model where the release notes are worked on as a
> > normal docs patch on the list and only committed at around RC1 to keep us from
> > changing and removing from (in case of reverts) documentation published on
> > postgresql.org?
> 
> Well, then no one who downloads the software has any visibility on what
> is changed/new, etc?  Seems worse than that you are trying to fix.

In addition, we only found out about this mistake because someone read
it and we saw it was wrong.  Withholding information only delays us
finding these mistakes.

I frankly don't understand how your suggestion makes anything better.

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