On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 at 20:56, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 05:24:14PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 5:03 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote: > > > I think we put it in the PG 11 release notes so people who used Postgres > previously would know this item is improved, but for new folks, it will > just work if they try it, but we don't want to encourage them to try it. > > > > And why do we care about informing people those people of this undocumented > behavior? It's not like we want to encourage them to use it either. > > I stand by my conviction that a release note entry for a user-visible feature > requires having documented said feature in the main documentation - and > vice-versa.
I would agree. If it's worth coding it's worth documenting. Unless of course the intention is that this is temporary.
I would also argue that putting them in the release notes is not enough. Am I expected to go through the release notes after I don't find it in the documentation ?
