On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 01:13:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I now have this text for your CREATE DATABASE fixes: > > <para> > Ensure durability of <command>CREATE DATABASE</command> (Noah Misch) > </para> > > <para> > If an operating system crash occurred during or shortly > after <command>CREATE DATABASE</command>, recovery could fail, or > subsequent connections to the new database could fail. If a base > backup was taken in that window, similar problems could be observed > when trying to use the backup. The symptom would be that the > database directory, <filename>PG_VERSION</filename> file, or > <filename>pg_filenode.map</filename> file was missing or empty. > </para>
Thanks for updating it; this text works for me. > This is ignoring the point that the set of observable symptoms might > differ between the OS crash and base-backup-recovery cases, but > I'm not sure that that's actually true, and in any case I don't think > it matters for the release notes. I agree with stopping short of adding that detail; it wouldn't help users make a known decision.
