Re: Press Release Draft - 2016-10-27 Cumulative Update

From: Jonathan Katz <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Press Release Draft - 2016-10-27 Cumulative Update
Date: 2016-10-24 20:39:26
Message-ID: 36C1844C-4663-46C7-9A46-D07C05200C93@excoventures.com
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> On Oct 24, 2016, at 2:49 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Jonathan Katz
> <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Below is the draft of the press release for the update this Thursday:
>>
>> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=press.git;a=blob;f=update_releases/current/update_201610.md;h=aac4d0b36f3f3017d319ac617eff901efe0c10c0;hb=880dc99766ee0e608e95d9c0f36ce3cde59f470f
>
> The discussion of truncating the visibility map is repeated twice,
> once at the top under "pg_upgrade issues on big-endian machines" and
> again at the bottom under "Updating". We should only have it there
> once. Also, the SQL we're proposing should actually be tested by
> someone before posting it - pg_truncate_visibility_map() takes a
> mandatory argument, so calling it with no arguments will not work.

I thought it might be good to repeat those instructions so people are clear that there is an actionable step post upgrade. I’m happy to leave it in just the update section, but make a reference to say “Please see the “Update” section for post-install steps.”

Jonathan

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