On Wed, Jan 17 2024 at 21:09:58 -0500, Sergio Durigan Junior
<sergi...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, January 17 2024, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
Hi there!
Hey, Chris,
Thanks for the review.
On Sat, Jan 13 2024 at 00:08:35 -0500, Sergio Durigan Junior
<sergio.duri...@canonical.com> wrote:
Hello,
In the same spirit as Christian's formal request for an SRU
exception
for open-vm-tools, Athos and I would like to formally request the
approval of the PostgreSQL MRE wiki page.
We (the Server team) have been doing such MREs for a number of
years
now, but it came to our attention recently that we don't actually
have
the MRE policy for PostgreSQL formally defined in a wiki page, as
is
usual for more recent packages.
I don't know much about the history behind why such page doesn't
exist,
but we would like to fix it by proposing the following document:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PostgreSQLUpdates
It looks like a good documentation of current practice, and current
practice looks (mostly) good.
A couple of questions:
* Checking the PostgreSQL policy, they say that a pg_dump/restore
cycle between minor updates is *normally* not needed. Has it
*ever*
been needed in the past? Presumably we would not take such an
update
(at least, not under this MRE)?
Athos and I have been doing this MRE for a bit more than a year now,
and
so far we have never seen a situation where a pg_dump/restore cycle
was
needed. I'm Cc'ing Christian, who used to handle the MREs before us,
in
case he knows something more.
* I notice a number of the updates are of the form “Fix FROB
index. If
you have any FROB indexes, you must run FROBINATE REINDEX to get
the
fixes”. How do we notify users of this? It's in the changelog,
which
is not nothing, and a debconf notice would be *way* too
disruptive. Is there anywhere else we should be pushing such
“you
really should check this” notifications?
That's a good question. My default answer for such scenarios tends to
be "let's put it in a d/NEWS file", but I appreciate the fact that not
everybody will have apt-listchanges installed. Nonetheless, maybe
that's a good compromise between having the entries buried in the
changelog vs. having a debconf notice. WDYT?
Ooooh, yes. d/NEWS would definitely be an improvement!
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