doc PG relnotes: add paragraph explaining the section symbol

And suppress the symbol in print mode, where the section symbol does not
appear.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]

Backpatch-through: 12

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index 7451f2d4ce335b71b102922e8b3467c2d0ce9527..18c5c65a52343a0fe8783eb23e5e771f60072fbf 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ For new features, add links to the documentation sections.
    review, so each item is truly a community effort.
   
 
+  
+   Section markers (§) in the release notes link to 
+   url="https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git">gitweb
+   pages which show the primary git commit
+   messages and source tree changes responsible for the release note item.
+   There might be additional git commits which
+   are not shown.
+  
+
 
 
 
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