On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 08:14 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <
guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 23:41 +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> >> We don't tend to remove the old code as that can lead to painful
> >> amounts of refactoring to make things look right afterwards. If you
> >> feel so inclined though, go ahead and do some cleanup.
> >>
> >
> > I don't see why we should remove old code that still works. That we say
> > we don't "officially" support older versions than 8.2, that's one thing
> > I would understand. Working on dropping code that should work to make
> > sure no one can use it with older versions is something I can't
> > understand.
>
> Well we don't actually know that it does still work, as we haven't
> tested it. I regularly find myself refactoring code for old versions
> of Postgres because I need to add support for a new version, and if
> it's something old like 7.3, it doesn't get tested.
>