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From: SAS <sas.postgresql@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-advocacy@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 2025-11-13 release announcement draft
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:16:03 +0100
Message-ID: <9493fbcc-8952-486f-8e80-f9b4b9124ab7@gmail.com> (raw)
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Le 10/11/2025 à 21:42, Justin Clift a écrit :
> On 2025-11-11 05:01, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Attached is a draft of the 2025-11-13 release announcement. Please provide 
>> feedback on correctness, notable omissions no later than 2025-11-13 12:00 
>> UTC (and ideally earlier!)
>
> With this:
>
>   > All PostgreSQL update releases are cumulative. As with other minor releases,
>   > users are not required to dump and reload their database or use `pg_upgrade`
>   > in order to apply this update release; you may simply shutdown PostgreSQL 
> and
>   > update its binaries.
>   >
>   > Users who have skipped one or more update releases may need to run 
> additional
>   > post-update steps; please see the release notes from earlier versions for
>   > details.
>
> It kind of gives the impression that post-upgrade steps aren't really needed
> unless one or more update releases have been skipped.  Not sure of better
> wording though.
>
This paragraph has been used as is for many releases. I guess people who have 
read it many times don't really think of it anymore. And I don't personally 
thought of it as you do. Maybe we could juste turn the last phrase upside down :

"Please see release notes for details on potential post-upgrade steps. Users 
who have skipped one or more update releases may need to run additional 
post-update steps."

Is it really any better?

Best,

Stéphane

-- 
Dr Stéphane Schildknecht
Contact régional PostgreSQL pour l'Europe francophone
+33 617 11 37 42


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