On Friday 29 January 2010 23:54:15 Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > What about anouncing in the 9.0 releasenotes that it will be removed in
> > 9.1?
>
> That seems quite useless.
>
> I note that we've made such statements before and not followed through
> on them; one that just came up again is that contrib/xml2 is a couple
> releases past when it was said it'd be removed, and there is still no
> prospect of it really dying in the near future.
> The bottom line is that these sorts of changes take actual *work*,
> and not a trivial amount of it. No amount of blather in the
> documentation will substitute for somebody doing the work.
It is not about somebody doing the work, it is about lowering the impact a
bit.
Andres