Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-06 Thread Jonathan S. Katz
On 2/6/22 3:42 PM, Andres Freund wrote: Hi, On 2022-02-06 14:22:25 -0500, Jonathan S. Katz wrote: On 2/6/22 1:44 PM, Andres Freund wrote: I'm working on the release announcement and have been following this thread. Are there steps we can provide to help a user detect that this occurred, even

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-06 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2022-02-06 14:22:25 -0500, Jonathan S. Katz wrote: > On 2/6/22 1:44 PM, Andres Freund wrote: > I'm working on the release announcement and have been following this thread. > > Are there steps we can provide to help a user detect that this occurred, > even though it's a low-probability?

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 02:22:25PM -0500, Jonathan S. Katz wrote: > I'm working on the release announcement and have been following this thread. > > Are there steps we can provide to help a user detect that this occurred, > even though it's a low-probability? It's the same question as raised

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-06 Thread Jonathan S. Katz
On 2/6/22 1:44 PM, Andres Freund wrote: Hi, On 2022-02-06 13:09:41 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Andres Freund writes: That's obviously to complicated for the release notes. Trying to make it more understandable I came up with the following, which still does not seem great: ... How do you like

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-06 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2022-02-06 13:09:41 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund writes: > > That's obviously to complicated for the release notes. Trying to make it > > more > > understandable I came up with the following, which still does not seem > > great: > > ... > > How do you like this wording? >

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-06 Thread Tom Lane
Andres Freund writes: > That's obviously to complicated for the release notes. Trying to make it more > understandable I came up with the following, which still does not seem great: > ... How do you like this wording? Fix corruption of HOT chains when a RECENTLY_DEAD tuple changes

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-05 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2022-02-04 14:58:59 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I've pushed the first draft for $SUBJECT at > > https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=ab22eea83169c8d0eb15050ce61cbe3d7dae4de6 +Author: Andres Freund +Branch: master [18b87b201] 2022-01-13 18:13:41 -0800 +Branch:

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-05 Thread Andres Freund
Hi, On 2022-02-04 22:27:54 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 02:58:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > I've pushed the first draft for $SUBJECT at > > > > https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=ab22eea83169c8d0eb15050ce61cbe3d7dae4de6 > > > > Please

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 04:35:07PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Michael Banck writes: > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 02:58:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> + If this seems to have affected a table, REINDEX > >> + should repair the damage. > > > I don't think this is very helpful to the

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-04 Thread Tom Lane
Justin Pryzby writes: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 04:29:19PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> I'm confused about this bit. Are we still building bogus stats for >> inheritance parents, or has that stopped? > To make a long story long: > - before 859b3003de, an ERROR occurred when a stats object was

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 04:29:19PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > + A previous bug fix disabled building of extended statistics for > > + old-style inheritance trees, but any existing statistics data was > > + not removed, and that data would become more and more out-of-date > > +

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-04 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Banck writes: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 02:58:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> + If this seems to have affected a table, REINDEX >> + should repair the damage. > I don't think this is very helpful to the reader, are their indexes > corrupt or not? If we can't tell them a specific

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-04 Thread Tom Lane
Justin Pryzby writes: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 02:58:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Please send comments/corrections by Sunday. [ assorted comments ] Thanks for the corrections. > + A previous bug fix disabled building of extended statistics for > + old-style inheritance trees, but

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 02:58:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I've pushed the first draft for $SUBJECT at > > https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=ab22eea83169c8d0eb15050ce61cbe3d7dae4de6 > > Please send comments/corrections by Sunday. > + > + Fix

Re: Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Feb 04, 2022 at 02:58:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I've pushed the first draft for $SUBJECT at > > https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=ab22eea83169c8d0eb15050ce61cbe3d7dae4de6 > > Please send comments/corrections by Sunday. + + Build extended

Release notes for February minor releases

2022-02-04 Thread Tom Lane
I've pushed the first draft for $SUBJECT at https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=ab22eea83169c8d0eb15050ce61cbe3d7dae4de6 Please send comments/corrections by Sunday. regards, tom lane