On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 9:57 AM Peter Eisentraut < peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> 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. I think we should also extend the blurb in the release notes to mention > the option of using logical replication to upgrade. Otherwise, if you > follow the link you propose, then one might think that logical > replication upgrading is not applicable since only pg_dump and > pg_upgrade were mentioned in the place the link came from. > > +1. -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>
