Re: Link to "Upgrading a PostgreSQL Cluster" in Release Notes - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Vik Fearing
Subject Re: Link to "Upgrading a PostgreSQL Cluster" in Release Notes
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Msg-id c57af416-0a24-f303-e4f5-4417c9f88dfe@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: Link to "Upgrading a PostgreSQL Cluster" in Release Notes  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On 09/01/2020 16:19, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks!  And thanks for adding the logical replication text, too.

-- 

Vik Fearing




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