Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 11:01:51PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-05-12 02:41, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > I'm not opposed to including it, but I think it's still true that the user
> > doesn't need to know in advance that the error message will be additionally
> > helpful in the event of corruption. If we were to include more "error" items,
> > we might also include these:
> >
> > 71a8a4f6e36547bb060dbcc961ea9b57420f7190 Add backtrace support for error reporting
>
> This is actually a legitimate user-visible feature and should be listed
> somewhere.

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 02:02:52PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> +1 -- it's very handy. Plus it has user-facing knobs.

That's already included:

| Allow function call backtraces of errors to be logged (Peter Eisentraut, Álvaro Herrera)
| Server variable backtrace_functions specifies which C functions should generate backtraces on error.

I 1) I failed to double check my list; and, 2) intended for that to be
interpretted as items which could be moved to a separate "error reporting"
section of the release notes.

--
Justin