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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2021-04-01 21:17:24 -0400
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2021-04-01 21:17:24 -0400
commitd6ca789dde70f2c323b79559b8ce0746ddf7a48d (patch)
treee1ea0b8fc5bcbcaebf102f13568a66b1f549dde5
parentbada6280f0b98765ecad8d85063cddf6ce82b3b0 (diff)
doc: mention that intervening major releases can be skipped
Also mention that you should read the intervening major releases notes. This change was also applied to the website. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210330144949.GA8259@momjian.us Backpatch-through: 9.6
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index e423aec9b5c..b2b5a092925 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1758,9 +1758,9 @@ $ <userinput>kill -INT `head -1 /usr/local/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid`</userinput
incompatibilities, so application programming changes might be required.
All user-visible changes are listed in the release notes (<xref
linkend="release"/>); pay particular attention to the section
- labeled "Migration". If you are upgrading across several major
- versions, be sure to read the release notes for each intervening
- version.
+ labeled "Migration". Though you can upgrade from one major version
+ to another without upgrading to intervening versions, you should read
+ the major release notes of all intervening versions.
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