Re: PostgreSQL 12: Feature Highlights

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 01:38:49PM +1200, David Rowley wrote:
> On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 03:36, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Yes, it does.  I added this text and moved the commit item:
> >
> >         Avoid sorting when partitions are already being scanned in the
> >         necessary order (David Rowley)
> 
> Thank you for moving that out.
> 
> > I certainly strugged to understand the maze of commits related to
> > partitioning.
> 
> With the utmost respect, because I certainly do appreciate the work
> you did on the release note, I think if that's the case, then it
> should only make you more willing to listen to the advice from the
> people who are closer to those commits.  However I understand that
> consistency is also important, so listening to the heckling of
> individuals sometimes won't lead to a good overall outcome.  That
> being said, I don't think that's what happened here, as most of the
> people who had a gripe about it were pretty close to the work that was
> done.
> 
> FWIW, I do think the release notes should be meant as a source of
> information which give a brief view on changes made that have a
> reasonable possibility of affecting people (either negative or
> positively) who are upgrading. Leaving out important details because
> they might confuse a small group of people seems wrong-headed, as it
> means the people who are not in that group are left to look at the
> commit history to determine what's changed, or worse, they might just
> assume that the thing has not changed which could either cause them to
> 1) Skip the upgrade because it's not interesting to them, or; 2)
> having something break because we didn't list some incompatibility.
> I know you know better than most people that extracting a useful
> summary from the commit history is a pretty mammoth task, so I doubt
> we should put that upon the masses.

No one has suggested new wording, so I don't know what you are
complaining about.  In fact, the wording we have now is by Amit Langote.

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