Re: Remove deprecated -H option from oid2name

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remove deprecated -H option from oid2name
Date: 2024-10-09 18:30:20
Message-ID: 9DF6F2E1-88D3-4129-980D-4ECAA45041EB@yesql.se
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> On 9 Oct 2024, at 19:15, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Another problem is that "deprecated" may or may not imply that the feature
> will be removed in the future. IMHO we should be clear about that when we
> intend to remove something down the road (e.g., "this flag is deprecated
> and will be removed in a future major release of PostgreSQL").

That's a fair point, but if we don't aim to remove something we have, IMHO, a
social contract to maintain the feature instead and at that point it's
questionable if it is indeed deprecated. I guess I think we should separate
between discouraged and deprecated.

--
Daniel Gustafsson

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