On 2/9/17 6:37 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> Anybody who still wants tsearch2 can go get it from an old version, or
>>> somebody can maintain a fork on github.
>> Works for me.
> +1
+1
>> I'd love to nuke pg_shadow and all the other
>> not-really-maintained backwards-compat things from when roles were
>> added too.
> Not sure if it's worth the work to rip out and such, but I'm mildly
> supportive of this one too. Depends a bit on what all the other things
> are ;)
The problem with pg_shadow is unless you specifically looked at it in
the docs after 8.1, you had no idea it was deprecated. I don't really
think of it as deprecated.
As someone mentioned, forcing a user to install an extension makes the
deprecation visible. Another option would be to have the backend spit
out a WARNING the first time you access anything that's deprecated. Both
of those are pertinent reminders to people that they need to change
their tools.
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