Re: Lets prohibit predicting the future in the documentation.

On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 at 14:17, David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Came across this again today...we added, way back in v11:
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> "This limitation will likely be removed in a future version of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>."
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> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/sql-createstatistics.html

This sort of thing doesn't particularly upset me. I don't believe we
should hide the fact that certain features might need more work. If it
inspires someone to work on making improvements, wouldn't it be
worthwhile keeping these? A huge amount of stuff gets done around here
because people find some inspiration to make things better. I don't
believe all those people need to experience the problems first-hand to
be able to fix them. Plenty of people arrive here just looking to get
involved and make a difference. I presume that something like this
being mentioned in the docs likely has a much better "we actually want
this feature" ratio than the TODO list does. I also imagine it's more
likely to inspire users of PostgreSQL to get involved in developing
than the TODO list is.

-1 from me.

David