Re: Any reason to have heap_(de)formtuple?

Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> Tom Lane napsal(a):

>> Well, aside from the gruntwork needed to convert all the core code that
>> still uses the old APIs, there's the prospect of breaking extension
>> modules that still use the old APIs.  It's kind of annoying to have two
>> copies of that code, but less annoying than removing it would be ...
>
> What's about convert null array to boolean and call heap_form_tuple?

Agreed, I started doing that some time ago ... it doesn't seem all that
complicated.  We could try to add a #warning if an external module uses
the deprecated interface, for a couple of releases, and then perhaps
drop it.

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