On Wednesday, January 17 2024, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > Hi there!
Hey, Chris, Thanks for the review. > On Sat, Jan 13 2024 at 00:08:35 -0500, Sergio Durigan Junior > <sergio.duri...@canonical.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> In the same spirit as Christian's formal request for an SRU >> exception >> for open-vm-tools, Athos and I would like to formally request the >> approval of the PostgreSQL MRE wiki page. >> We (the Server team) have been doing such MREs for a number of years >> now, but it came to our attention recently that we don't actually have >> the MRE policy for PostgreSQL formally defined in a wiki page, as is >> usual for more recent packages. >> I don't know much about the history behind why such page doesn't >> exist, >> but we would like to fix it by proposing the following document: >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PostgreSQLUpdates > > It looks like a good documentation of current practice, and current > practice looks (mostly) good. > > A couple of questions: > > * Checking the PostgreSQL policy, they say that a pg_dump/restore > cycle between minor updates is *normally* not needed. Has it *ever* > been needed in the past? Presumably we would not take such an update > (at least, not under this MRE)? Athos and I have been doing this MRE for a bit more than a year now, and so far we have never seen a situation where a pg_dump/restore cycle was needed. I'm Cc'ing Christian, who used to handle the MREs before us, in case he knows something more. > * I notice a number of the updates are of the form “Fix FROB index. If > you have any FROB indexes, you must run FROBINATE REINDEX to get the > fixes”. How do we notify users of this? It's in the changelog, which > is not nothing, and a debconf notice would be *way* too > disruptive. Is there anywhere else we should be pushing such “you > really should check this” notifications? That's a good question. My default answer for such scenarios tends to be "let's put it in a d/NEWS file", but I appreciate the fact that not everybody will have apt-listchanges installed. Nonetheless, maybe that's a good compromise between having the entries buried in the changelog vs. having a debconf notice. WDYT? Thanks, -- Sergio GPG key ID: E92F D0B3 6B14 F1F4 D8E0 EB2F 106D A1C8 C3CB BF14 -- Ubuntu-release mailing list Ubuntu-release@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
