On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 08:25 +0900, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote:
> 2013/2/22 Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>:
> >
> > On 02/21/2013 12:56 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Ian Lawrence Barwick
> >>> <barwick@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm not sure if this is a documentation or hackers issue, but the
> >>>> documentation page for contrib module "xml2" refers to PostgreSQL 8.4 in
> >>>> the
> >>>> future tense:
> >>>>
> >>>> "It is planned that this module will be removed in PostgreSQL 8.4 in
> >>>> favor of the newer standard API"
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/xml2.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Are there any plans to remove this module by a forseeable date?
> >>>
> >>> Nope. I have repeatedly been voted down on removing it, and I've also
> >>> been repeatedly voted down on removing the deprecation text. Could we
> >>> at least agree on changing the deprecation text to say "This module is
> >>> deprecated and may be removed in a future release"?
> >>
> >> Not reopening the actual discussion about rmeoving it, but assuming
> >> we're not, strong +1 on changing the deprecation message. And don't
> >> forget to backpatch the change so it shows up in the old versions of
> >> the docs as well.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Yes, we should change it to remove the reference to 8.4.
>
> Documentation patch attached.
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