On Sat, Nov 7, 2026 at 5:47 PM Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2026 at 07:17:02PM -0500, shihao zhong wrote: > > Thanks Bruce for explaining how the minor release notes fit in. That > > makes sense, so please drop my patch. > > > This showed me that there is _some_ confusion in the process. Suppose > in PG 18.14 we tell users to reindex, and in PG 19.5, which was released > on the same day as 18.14, we tell people to reindex for the same reason. > > Imagine someone is running 18.10, and they want to upgrade to 19.7. > They will read all the release notes from 18.11 to 19.7, > > My understanding (position?) is that upgrading from 16.5 to 18.6; I'd expect to need to upgrade to 16.15 and read release notes for 16.6-16.15; then read the notes for 17.0 and 18.0 when I go from 16.15 to 18.6. I shouldn't need to read anything else in the 17 release nor the fixes applied to 18 for versions I never installed. I'll never see that reindex twice. We don't support upgrading from an unsupported release, nor into an unsupported one. And the fixes that hit a major version only matter if you'd already been running that version otherwise those same fixes would have appeared on your supported minor release notes. David J.
