Hi Tom and Michael,
On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 12:38 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 11:51:49AM +0800, Junwang Zhao wrote:
> >> Should you also bump the catalog version?
>
> > No need to worry about that when sending a patch because committers
> > take care of that when merging a patch into the tree. Doing that in
> > each patch submitted just creates more conflicts and work for patch
> > authors because they'd need to recolve conflicts each time a
> > catversion bump happens. And that can happen on a daily basis
> > sometimes depending on what is committed.
>
> Right. Sometimes the committer forgets to do that :-(, which is
> not great but it's not normally a big problem either. We've concluded
> it's better to err in that direction than impose additional work
> on patch submitters.
>
> If you feel concerned about the point, best practice is to include a
> mention that catversion bump is needed in your draft commit message.
>
> regards, tom lane
Got it, thanks for both of your explanations.
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Regards
Junwang Zhao
