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
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Bruce Momjian 4 years ago
parent 9eacee2e62
commit 2bda93f813
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      doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml

@ -1692,9 +1692,9 @@ $ <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.
</para>
<para>

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