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.
I think we should also extend the blurb in the release notes to mention the option of using logical replication to upgrade. Otherwise, if you follow the link you propose, then one might think that logical replication upgrading is not applicable since only pg_dump and pg_upgrade were mentioned in the place the link came from.
