Re: First draft of the PG 15 release notes

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 10:37:56AM +0900, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
>>>> Remove exclusive backup mode (David Steele, Nathan Bossart)

>> It'd be useful to mention exclusive backup mode has been deprecated since 9.6,
>> lest the impression arise that an important-sounding feature has been torn out
>> suddenly.

> Well, the documentation was clear about it being deprecated, so I don't
> see a need to mention it in the release notes.

Yeah, but somebody reading these notes doesn't necessarily have that
old documentation at hand.

I think writing "Remove the long-deprecated exclusive backup mode"
would do nicely to make this point without many extra words.

            regards, tom lane