Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:20:57PM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 07:40:25PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 11:39:10PM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 11:16:00PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > Allow skipping of WAL for new tables and indexes if wal_level is 'minimal' (Noah Misch)
> > >
> > > Kyotaro Horiguchi authored that one. (I committed it.) The commit message
> > > noted characteristics, some of which may deserve mention in the notes:
> >
> > Fixed.
>
> I don't see that change pushed (but it's not urgent).

I got stuck on Amit's partition items and my head couldn't process any
more, so I went to bed, and just committed it now. I was afraid to have
pending stuff uncommitted, but I am also hesitant to do a commit for
each change.

> > > - Crash recovery was losing tuples written via COPY TO. This fixes the bug.
> >
> > This was not backpatched?
>
> Right.

Oh. So you are saying we could lose COPY data on a crash, even after a
commit. That seems bad. Can you show me the commit info? I can't find
it.

> > > - Out-of-tree table access methods will require changes.
> >
> > Uh, I don't think we mention those.
>
> Okay. This point is relatively-important. On the other hand, the table
> access methods known to me have maintainers who follow -hackers. They may
> learn that way.

That was my thought.

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