Re: Draft release notes for minor releases are up

On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 01:13:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I now have this text for your CREATE DATABASE fixes:
>
> <para>
> Ensure durability of <command>CREATE DATABASE</command> (Noah Misch)
> </para>
>
> <para>
> If an operating system crash occurred during or shortly
> after <command>CREATE DATABASE</command>, recovery could fail, or
> subsequent connections to the new database could fail. If a base
> backup was taken in that window, similar problems could be observed
> when trying to use the backup. The symptom would be that the
> database directory, <filename>PG_VERSION</filename> file, or
> <filename>pg_filenode.map</filename> file was missing or empty.
> </para>

Thanks for updating it; this text works for me.

> This is ignoring the point that the set of observable symptoms might
> differ between the OS crash and base-backup-recovery cases, but
> I'm not sure that that's actually true, and in any case I don't think
> it matters for the release notes.

I agree with stopping short of adding that detail; it wouldn't help users make
a known decision.