Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes

2022年5月12日(木) 11:46 Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>:
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 11:40:17AM +0900, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
> > Looking at the release notes from the point of view of someone who has maybe
> > not been following the long-running debate on removing exclusive backups:
> >
> > "Important-sounding backup thing is suddenly gone! What was that
> > again? Hmm, can't
> > find anything in the now-current Pg 15 docs [*], do I need to worry
> > about this!?"
> >
> > [*] the backup section has removed all mention of the word "exclusive"
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-LOWLEVEL-BASE-BACKUP
> >
> > versus:
> >
> > "Long-deprecated thing is finally gone, ah OK whatever".
> >
> > I am thinking back here to a point in my working life where the
> > release notes were reviewed
> > (by a team including non-Pg specialists) for potential issues when
> > considering a major
> > upgrade - from experience the more clarity with this kind of change
> > the better so
> > as not to unnecessarily raise alarm bells.
>
> Ah, you are right. I thought I had "deprecated" in the text, but I now
> see I did not, and we do have cases where we mention the deprecated
> status in previous release notes, so the new text is:
>
> Remove long-deprecated exclusive backup mode (David Steele, Nathan
> Bossart)

That works, thanks!

Regards

Ian Barwick

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