Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 07:51:38PM +0200, Matthias van de Meent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that PG17's release note for commit cafe10565 is "Allow psql
> connections to be canceled with control-C (Tristan Partin)", but this
> summary seems wrong to me.
>
> We already had ^C connection (query) cancellation for quite some time
> before this patch. What's new with that patch, is that we now also can
> cancel connection attempts with ^C while we're still connecting (i.e.,
> we haven't yet authenticated and are trying to move the connection
> state forward).
> I think a better wording would be "Allow psql connection attempts to
> be canceled with control-C (Tristan Partin)", or "Allow psql
> connections to be canceled with control-C while psql is still
> connecting (Tristan Partin)".

I see your point. I committed a change to use this wording:

Allow psql connection attempts to be canceled with control-C
(Tristan Partin)

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