On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 at 14:58, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> writes: > > I've attached a patch that removes some now redundant messaging about > > unsupported versions. > > If we want to make that a policy, I think a lot more could be done > --- I remember noticing a documentation comment about some 8.x > version just recently. > > However, "out of support" is a lot different from "nobody has any > code written for that version anymore". So I'd be inclined to keep > the first hunk in your patch, the one explaining the regexp_matches- > in-a-subselect trick. People will be trying to puzzle out why > somebody did it like that for years to come. > > I agree with simplifying the other two spots.
Fair enough. I've updated the patch. However, feel free to ignore if this marks the thin edge of the wedge. Thom
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