Re: PG 18 release notes draft committed

On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 01:16:24PM +0200, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 02:06, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 01:46:29AM +0200, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2 May 2025 at 04:45, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have committd the first draft of the PG 18 release notes. The item
> > > > count looks strong:
> > >
> > > Thanks for all the work. Some notes:
> > >
> > > 1. There's currently no mention that protocol version 3.2 was
> > > introduced in this release. I'm not sure where/how this should be
> > > mentioned, but I definitely think it should be somewhere. It's a
> > > pretty major change. One option is to replace/amend the "Make cancel
> > > request keys 256 bits" item. Maybe replace that with something like:
> > > "Postgres 18 introduces protocol version 3.2. This is the first new
> > > protocol version since 3.0, which was introduced in Postgres 7.4. This
> > > new protocol version 3.2 allows a server to use longer cancel request
> > > keys. When the client advertises support for protocol version 3.2 (or
> > > higher) Postgres 18 will use a cancel key size of 256 bits."
> >
> > Okay, I added a mention next to the libpq version function entries.
>
> I think it should be mentioned in the server section. How about we
> replace: "This is enabled when the libpq client and server are
> Postgres 18 or later. ", with the following:
>
> This is only enabled when the client supports the wire protocol
> version 3.2 (or up), Wire protocol version 3.2 is introduced in this
> release. For libpq based clients that means that libpq needs to be of
> version 18 or higher.
>
> That also makes it clear that for non-libpq based clients people
> should check if their client supports it.

I moved the item and added some text, patch attached.

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