Re: Link to "Upgrading a PostgreSQL Cluster" in Release Notes

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.

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