On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 14:08 -0700, Ron Mayer wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > What are the probabilities that the OpenACSes of the world will just > > set the value to "backward compatible" instead of touching their code? > > Would postgres get considerably cleaner if a hypothetical 9.0 release > skipped backward compatibility and removed anything that's only > maintained for historical reasons?
Probably not. Most of the examples you cite of documented deprecated or historical behavior would be one-line changes to get rid of. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
