Re: PG 18 release notes draft committed

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 11:38:33AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > I have committed the first draft of the PG 18 release notes.
> >
>
> I think it is worth mentioning about commit
> 7c99dc587a010a0c40d72a0e435111ca7a371c02 as that changes the behavior
> of how the system behaves for missing publications. Previously, we
> used to stop replication with ERROR if the required publication is
> missing, now we skip the missing publication and let replication
> continue. Though it may sound the new behavior is intuitive but still
> there could be some users relying on old behavior, so it is better to
> list this item explicitly.

Huh, looking at the commit message, I can see why I didn't add it:

* no user reports, only buildfarm
* used to throw an unexpected error, now works
* an uncommon failure

We usually don't document those in the release notes. Can someone else
give an opinion here?

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