| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Documenting removal of nonnullvalue() and friends |
| Date: | 2010-10-14 14:00:06 |
| Message-ID: | 1287064806.9532.5.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On ons, 2010-10-13 at 23:25 -0400, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
> Would anyone favor instead back-patching the documentation for the
> 8.3, 8.2, and 8.1 branches to include mentions of these
> previously-undocumented functions, instead? In
> <http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2004-08/msg00015.php>, Tom
> opined that they should be left undocumented, but I really don't agree
> with that.
The sets of intentionally documented and undocumented functions is part
of the API specification of a release, and we're not changing that after
the release, especially not when a future release ends up reverting the
change.
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