Re: hstore isexists

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: hstore isexists
Date: 2006-10-11 20:57:20
Message-ID: 20061011205719.GS13487@nasby.net
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 04:17:19PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:04:10AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> >>Teodor Sigaev wrote:
> >>
> >>>It's possible to create function 'exists' and mention only it in docs.
> >>>
> >>Good point. Will you do that, or do you want me to?
> >>
> >
> >ISTM it would be better to mention the deprecated version and
> >explicitly state that it's deprecated.
> >
> >
>
> If we had had this in contrib previously with the deprecated call I
> would agree. But it seems like bad practice and unnecessary clutter to
> start off by deprecating something.

Sorry, I don't know the history of hstore... but if it's brand new, why
are we worried about backwards compatibility?
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Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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