Changes to the 2023-11-09 release

Reported-by: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reported-by: Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>

diff --git a/update_releases/current/20231109securityrelease.md b/update_releases/current/20231109securityrelease.md
index 653dc0a2cc50a41d17e83cb12892ea70a29aa7a4..5998bcd446f869b215d01012efb90d0c8df3c1f2 100644 (file)
--- a/update_releases/current/20231109securityrelease.md
+++ b/update_releases/current/20231109securityrelease.md
@@ -1,16 +1,10 @@
 The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported
 versions of PostgreSQL, including 16.1, 15.5, 14.10, 13.13, 12.17, and 11.22
-This release fixes three security vulnerabilities and over 55 bugs and reported
+This release fixes three security vulnerabilities and over 55 bugs reported
 over the last several months.
 
 This release includes fixes for indexes where in certain cases, we advise
-reindexing. Please see the "Update" section for more details.
-
-This is the **final release of PostgreSQL 11**. PostgreSQL 10 will no longer
-receive
-[security and bug fixes](https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/).
-If you are running PostgreSQL 10 in a production environment, we suggest that
-you make plans to upgrade.
+reindexing. Please see the "Updating" section for more details.
 
 For the full list of changes, please review the
 [release notes](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/).
@@ -95,7 +89,8 @@ columns. Please [reindex](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-reindex.ht
 any B-tree index that includes an `interval` column after installing this
 update.
 * Provide more efficient indexing of `date`, `timestamptz`, and `timestamp`
-values in BRIN indexes. While not required, we recommend
+values in BRIN indexes when using a [`minmax_multi` opsclass](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/brin-builtin-opclasses.html).
+While not required, we recommend
 [reindexing](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-reindex.html) BRIN
 indexes that include these data types after installing this update.
 * Fix for bulk table insertion into partitioned tables.
@@ -144,17 +139,22 @@ users are not required to dump and reload their database or use `pg_upgrade` in
 order to apply this update release; you may simply shutdown PostgreSQL and
 update its binaries.
 
-------
-If you use [BRIN]((https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/brin-intro.html))
-indexes to  look up `NULL` values, you will need to [reindex](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-reindex.html)
-them after upgrading to this release. On PostgreSQL 12 and above, you can use
+We recommend [reindexing](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-reindex.html)
+certain types of indexes after you apply this update, including:
+
+* GiST indexes
+* B-tree indexes that use the `interval` data type
+* BRIN indexes that use the `date`, `timestamptz`, and `timestamp`
+data types and a
+[`minmax_multi` opsclass](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/brin-builtin-opclasses.html)
+
+On PostgreSQL 12 and above, you can use
 [`REINDEX CONCURRENTLY`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-reindex.html)
 to avoid blocking writes to the affected index and table, for example:
 
 ```
 REINDEX INDEX CONCURRENTLY your_index_name;
 ```
-----
 
 Users who have skipped one or more update releases may need to run additional
 post-update steps; please see the release notes from earlier versions for