Re: Alpha 1 release notes

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Massa, Harald Armin" <chef@ghum.de> writes:
> > within source code, build options there is:
> > - Reserve the shared memory region during backend startup on Windows,
> >   so that memory allocated by starting third party DLLs doesn't end up
> >   conflicting with it.  Hopefully this solves the long-time issue with
> >   "could not reattach to shared memory" errors on Win32.
> 
> > I suggest that it should also be pointed out that this fix will be
> > backported to 8.3 and 8.4 (as much as I followed the ML);
> 
> Normally, bug fixes that have been back-patched wouldn't be mentioned at
> all in a new major release's release notes.  The implied base that we
> are comparing to in major-release notes is the end of the prior branch's
> updates.  I'm not sure if this case should be an exception, or if we
> should have a different general rule for alpha releases.  We'd like to
> get more testing on that fix, so I think it is reasonable to mention it
> for alpha1 --- but is that an exception specific to this bug fix, or
> does it indicate we want to handle bug fixes differently in general
> within alpha release notes?
> 
> In any case, it is not the function of the alpha release notes to
> discuss changes in earlier release branches.  The reason the commit
> log points out the back-patch is to make it easier to extract the
> information when we prepare release notes for the back-branch updates.

FYI, tools/pgcvslog -d removes backbranch commits automatically.

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