Re: [HACKERS] RE: cvs-commit-digest V1 #856

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> I also told Peter that 7.0 was a good time to remove routines that were
> no longer needed.  Yes, it is a migration problem, but why drag around
> functions forever that are useless.  Maybe he pulled one too many?

We have in fact talked about removing some of the older-generation
print functions (though I was envisioning a slow process of labeling
them deprecated for a few releases...).  It was the quite unnecessary
modification of the exported PQprintOpt struct that got my Irish up.
I've fought way too many hard-to-debug crashes caused by that sort
of change.
        regards, tom lane