Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:54:52AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 07:18:56PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 11:55:33AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >> Should e2e02191 be added to the notes? This commit means that we
> >> actually dropped support for Windows 2000 (finally) at run-time.
> >
> > Oh, yes. This is much more important than the removal of support for
> > non-ELF BSD systems, which I already listed. The new text is:
> >
> > Remove support for Windows 2000 (Michael Paquier)
>
> Sounds fine to me.
>
> >> At the same time I see no mention of 79dfa8af, which added better
> >> error handling when backends the SSL context with incorrect bounds.
> >
> > I skipped that commit since people don't normally care about better
> > error messages until they see the error message, and then they are happy
> > it is there, unless this is some chronic error message problem we are
> > fixing.
>
> Okay.
>
> > I thought this fell into the previous category about error messages, but
> > coloring is different. Can we say these utilities now honor the color
> > environment variables?
>
> Exactly, I actually became aware of that possibility after plugging
> in the common logging APIs to oid2name and vacuumlo as of fc8cb94b so
> this was not mentioned in the log message. And anything using
> src/common/logging.c can make use of the colorized output with
> PG_COLOR[S] set.
>
> > Are these the only new ones?
>
> I can recall an extra one in this case: pgbench as of 30a3e77. And I
> don't see any new callers of pg_logging_init() in the stuff that
> already existed in ~12.

I am not sure we even mentioned this in 12. Should we document this
somewhere? Maybe a blog posting?

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