Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes

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)

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