Wolfgang Wilhelm wrote:
> yes, indeed I'm a little confused. I'm not the only one, some Pg-Guys from other companies which I
> asked about the topic were a little bit puzzled, too.
>
> If this is really a left over and just for portablity when will be time for a clean up? May be not for
> the next years' version - there should be in good PG manner just an information that this feature is
> deprecated, if the Hackers agree - but may be for the PG-version of 2017 or 2018?
>
>
> As you as a contributor are more included in the development of PG code, do you see chances to get
> that out of the code? If so I'm willing to have a look in the code whether there are comments about
> that feature.
Tom Lane has taken care of it before I even got to read your e-mail:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/E1XmB2w-0008Ho-NO@gemulon.postgresql.org
It will be gone in 9.5.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe