On 12/18/2015 09:12 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> On 2015-12-18 12:06:43 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> Well, Tom, Alvaro, and I all pretty much said that removing things
>>> when it's blocking further development makes sense, but that there's
>>> no hurry to remove anything else. That sounds like what you are
>>> saying, too. So what's the actual disagreement here?
>>
>> I'm saying that 10 year deprecation periods don't make sense. Either we
>> decide to remove the compat switch because we dislike it for $reasons,
>> in which case it should be removed sooner. Or we decide to keep the
>> switch indefinitely.
>
> Forever is an awfully long time. I think that it's OK to remove
> backward-compatibility features at some point even if they're not
> really harming anything. I think the time before we do that should be
> long, but I don't think it needs to be forever.
Why not just keep it at the same rate as our support policy? The feature
gets 5 years, then it is removed.
JD
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