Re: First-draft release notes for back-branch releases

On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 10:49:30PM -0500, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> On 11/5/18 9:58 PM, Amit Langote wrote:
> > On 2018/11/06 11:25, Noah Misch wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 04:01:59PM -0500, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> >>> Attached is a draft of the press release for review. Please let me know
> >>> if there are any corrections/suggestions.
> >>> * Disallows the creation of a new partition from a trigger that is attached to its parent table to prevent a
crash;this behavior could be modified in a future release
 
> >>> * Fix that prevents crashes in triggers on tables with recently added columns
> >>
> >> I would replace these two with "Fix crashes in triggers".  The details are too
> >> esoteric, for the first especially, to list here.
> > 
> > +1
> 
> Thanks for the feedback. I made the suggested changes upthread as well
> as the above. Please see attached.

Looks good.

> Funny enough I had a simplified version of the "trigger crashes" in my
> first draft, but I thought about expanding it given that future behavior
> could change.
> 
> I still feel inclined to elaborate on the "Prevent creation of a
> partition in a trigger attached to its parent table" but perhaps in
> future release we will just mention that this behavior is again available.

It's a gray area.