Re: 2025-11-13 release announcement draft

On 2025-11-11 05:01, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:

Hi,

Attached is a draft of the 2025-11-13 release announcement. Please provide feedback on correctness, notable omissions no later than 2025-11-13 12:00 UTC (and ideally earlier!)

With this:

  > All PostgreSQL update releases are cumulative. As with other minor releases,
  > users are not required to dump and reload their database or use `pg_upgrade`
  > in order to apply this update release; you may simply shutdown PostgreSQL and
  > update its binaries.
  >
  > Users who have skipped one or more update releases may need to run additional
  > post-update steps; please see the release notes from earlier versions for
  > details.

It kind of gives the impression that post-upgrade steps aren't really needed
unless one or more update releases have been skipped.  Not sure of better
wording though.

This paragraph has been used as is for many releases. I guess people who have read it many times don't really think of it anymore. And I don't personally thought of it as you do. Maybe we could juste turn the last phrase upside down :

"Please see release notes for details on potential post-upgrade steps. Users who have skipped one or more update releases may need to run additional post-update steps."

Is it really any better?

Best,

Stéphane