Re: Do away with a few backwards compatibility macros

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 04:29:18PM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> I think it's easy to miss/enforce a documented policy. IMV, moving
> towards pg_attribute_deprecated as Alvaro Herrera said in the other
> thread https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/202311141920.edtj56saukiv%40alvherre.pgsql
> can help. Authors then can declare the variables and functions as
> deprecated so that the code compilation with
> -Wno-deprecated-declarations can help track all such deprecated code.

I'm +1 for adding pg_attribute_deprecated once we have something to use it
for.

> Having said that, I'm all +1 if the v1 patch proposed in this thread gets in.

Committed.

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