"Erik Rijkers" <er@xs4all.nl> writes:
> On Tue, February 12, 2013 17:19, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> I'm not sure are you suggesting, though. Are you saying that the commit
>> message should explicitely state "this patch requires initdb" or some
>> such?
> I was under the impression that this was habitually done in commit messages, but looking back
> through the commitlog messages it's not all that clear although sometimes catversion bumps are
> explicitly mentioned.
I think usually if the topic is mentioned in a commit message, it's to
explain why we are (or are not) forcing an initdb. By and large, if a
patch touches catversion.h, that ought to be sufficient warning ...
regards, tom lane