Re: Link to "Upgrading a PostgreSQL Cluster" in Release Notes

On 2020-01-03 11:00, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On 2019-12-30 00:03, Vik Fearing wrote:
> > Following a complaint on IRC about the dearth of information on
> how to
> > migrate to a new major version in the release notes, the attached
> > trivial patch was determined to be sufficient for the OP.
> >
> > This patch applies to REL_12_STABLE.  I don't know how far it
> should be
> > backpatched (the OP was trying to upgrade to v10), and I didn't
> see any
> > place to put it for 13 and future versions.
>
> I think this change is sensible.  But to what extent do we want to edit
> around in old release notes?  Should we just keep it for PG13?
>
>
> I think it makes sense to backpatch it. Lots of people still upgrade to
> at least 12 and 11, and that's a likely place for them to start reading.
> And if we're already covering 12 and 11, it is probably no big extra
> effort to do other supported branches as well.

Committed to 12, 11, 10. After that the patch didn't apply anymore and
nobody should be upgrading to that anyway.

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