Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft
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Msg-id 20200512024614.GV4666@momjian.us
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In response to Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
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On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:54:52AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 07:18:56PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Fri, May  8, 2020 at 11:55:33AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >> Should e2e02191 be added to the notes?  This commit means that we
> >> actually dropped support for Windows 2000 (finally) at run-time.
> > 
> > Oh, yes.  This is much more important than the removal of support for
> > non-ELF BSD systems, which I already listed.  The new text is:
> > 
> >     Remove support for Windows 2000 (Michael Paquier)
> 
> Sounds fine to me.
> 
> >> At the same time I see no mention of 79dfa8af, which added better
> >> error handling when backends the SSL context with incorrect bounds.
> > 
> > I skipped that commit since people don't normally care about better
> > error messages until they see the error message, and then they are happy
> > it is there, unless this is some chronic error message problem we are
> > fixing.
> 
> Okay.
> 
> > I thought this fell into the previous category about error messages, but
> > coloring is different.  Can we say these utilities now honor the color
> > environment variables?
> 
> Exactly, I actually became aware of that possibility after plugging
> in the common logging APIs to oid2name and vacuumlo as of fc8cb94b so
> this was not mentioned in the log message.  And anything using
> src/common/logging.c can make use of the colorized output with
> PG_COLOR[S] set.
> 
> > Are these the only new ones?
> 
> I can recall an extra one in this case: pgbench as of 30a3e77.  And I
> don't see any new callers of pg_logging_init() in the stuff that
> already existed in ~12.

I am not sure we even mentioned this in 12.  Should we document this
somewhere?  Maybe a blog posting?

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