On 8/20/15 4:25 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2015 4:16 PM, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Our expectations about forward compatibility for postgresql.conf entries
>> have always been pretty low; even more so for not-widely-used settings.
>>
>> In any case, wouldn't what you describe simply put off the pain for awhile
>> (replacing it with confusion in the short term)? Eventually we're going
>> to break it.
>>
>
> Well, that's true of any depreciation. And if we throw a log message then
> people will know about it...
>
> That said, I'm not against a clean break with compatibility either. As long
> as it's clean - like renaming the parameters.
All right. I'll submit a patch for that.
Thanks for the input, both.
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