Re: Adding since-version tags to the docs?

"Shulgin, Oleksandr" <oleksandr(dot)shulgin(at)zalando(dot)de> writes:
> I often find it pity that our docs are missing any information on since
> when a certain GUC setting, SQL-level command or function was introduced.
> It would be nice if we could make a script that would parse the sgml files
> and for every symbol it finds it would add a tag like "Since version 9.x".

TBH, I think this is a horrid idea. We occasionally manually add remarks
like "since version x.y, Postgres does this". Inevitably, that just bulks
up the documentation; and it starts to look seriously silly in a few years
when x.y and all its predecessors are out of support. It'll be a real
mess if we do that for everything.

There might be a use-case for a table of this sort somewhere, but please
not in the main documentation.

regards, tom lane