| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Documenting removal of nonnullvalue() and friends |
| Date: | 2010-10-14 23:04:56 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTikUKtngdLHCeqi=iERU6ydvQRcsW8EoaSwkrT3o@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I find the idea of things being intentionally undocumented quite
>> difficult. How is someone coming along supposed to know which things
>> are intentionally undocumented and which things are unintentionally
>> undocumented?
>
> They should assume the lack of documentation is intentional. Six or
> seven years ago your argument might have held some water, but we've
> been quite rigorous about requiring externally-visible features to be
> documented from the get-go.
That just doesn't match my experience. We goof. People find it.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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