Re: First draft of PG 17 release notes

On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 9:09 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 05:33:18PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 10:01:28AM +0200, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> >> Another new API that is useful for extension authors is the following
> >> one (I'm obviously biased since I'm the author, and I don't know if
> >> there's still time):
> >>
> >>     Add macros for looping through a List without a ListCell.
> >
> > Can someone else comment on the idea of adding this release note item?
> > I don't feel confident in my ability to evaluate this.  I obviously did
> > not see it as significant the first time.
>
> I'm not sure precisely what criteria you use to choose what goes in the
> release notes, but this one seems like a judgement call to me.  My initial
> reaction is that it shouldn't be included, but I do see some items with a
> similar scope, such as "Remove some SPI macros."

I wouldn't mention either this or "Remove some unused SPI macros".

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