Tom Lane wrote:
>Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> writes:
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>>I agree with another poster that deprecation in 7.4 and removal in
>>7.5 might make sense.
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>How would we "deprecate" it exactly? Throw a NOTICE?
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Good question. A NOTICE just might be ignored, breaking everything
"surprisingly" in 7.5.
To speak a bit more general, how about some sort of "deprecation
checker" setting, if set to true anything marked as deprecated will
throw an error, if false only a notice will be generated. This would
enable users to check their existing stuff for future compatibility
before it's broken in the next release.
Regards,
Andreas