Re: First draft of back-branch release notes is done

[Jonathan S. Katz]

On 2/5/23 3:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

"Jonathan S. Katz" <jk...@postgresql.org> writes:

On Feb 4, 2023, at 10:24 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

“Prevent clobbering of cached parsetrees…Bad things could happen if…”

While I chuckled over the phrasing, I’m left to wonder what the “bad things” 
are, in case I
need to check an older version to see if I’m susceptible to this bug.

Fair.  I was trying to avoid committing to specific consequences.
The assertion failure seen in the original report (#17702) wouldn't
occur for typical users, but they might see crashes or "unexpected node
type" failures.  Maybe we can say that instead.

I did a quick readthrough of #17702. Your proposal sounds reasonable.



Thanks,

Jonathan

Based on that explanation and reading #17702, I'm still not sure if this will make the cut in the release announcement itself, but +1 for modifying it in the release notes.

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