| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | mali_86(at)outlook(dot)com, Pg Docs <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: psql's commit df9f599b is not documented |
| Date: | 2021-08-03 00:24:14 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwZjzhj2THbxKueK6g7V2_1n7xCkSxB2AbUpJTNXFiL1HA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 5:03 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>
> I think we put it in the PG 11 release notes so people who used Postgres
> previously would know this item is improved, but for new folks, it will
> just work if they try it, but we don't want to encourage them to try it.
>
>
And why do we care about informing people those people of this undocumented
behavior? It's not like we want to encourage them to use it either.
I stand by my conviction that a release note entry for a user-visible
feature requires having documented said feature in the main documentation -
and vice-versa.
David J.
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