From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Remove array_nulls? |
Date: | 2015-12-18 17:25:32 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZ=-gY=gZYSwt7rvJr=4V8PQ8jQkW+6mx9TuVQpV=K1Eg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> On 12/18/2015 09:12 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2015-12-18 12:06:43 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well, Tom, Alvaro, and I all pretty much said that removing things
>>>> when it's blocking further development makes sense, but that there's
>>>> no hurry to remove anything else. That sounds like what you are
>>>> saying, too. So what's the actual disagreement here?
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm saying that 10 year deprecation periods don't make sense. Either we
>>> decide to remove the compat switch because we dislike it for $reasons,
>>> in which case it should be removed sooner. Or we decide to keep the
>>> switch indefinitely.
>>
>>
>> Forever is an awfully long time. I think that it's OK to remove
>> backward-compatibility features at some point even if they're not
>> really harming anything. I think the time before we do that should be
>> long, but I don't think it needs to be forever.
>
>
> Why not just keep it at the same rate as our support policy? The feature
> gets 5 years, then it is removed.
I did discuss that exact question in several previous postings to this thread...
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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