Re: Ancient comment in rules.sgml

> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> writes:
>> There's a comment beginning with:
>> <!-- What's happening with this?  If it doesn't come back, remove this section. -->
>> in rules.sgml around line 2437. It seems this has been there since 2003.
>> Do we need to keep this?
> 
> Well, the point is that the whole para after that is commented out.

Yes, so my question was we could safely remove the whole comment or
not.

> The para in question seems to have shown up in 20a071326, and
> at the time it began
> 
> +<Para>
> +    Another situation are cases on UPDATE where it depends on the
> +    change of an attribute if an action should be performed or
> +    not. In <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> version 6.4, the
> +    attribute specification for rule events is disabled (it will have
> +    it's comeback latest in 6.5, maybe earlier 
> +    - stay tuned). So for now the only way to
> +    create a rule as in the shoelace_log example is to do it with
> +    a rule qualification. That results in an extra query that is
> +    performed allways, even if the attribute of interest cannot
> 
> I think it's a safe bet at this point that that feature isn't ever
> coming back, so I'd be good with ripping out the whole para.

Ok, I will remove the comment in all supported branches (after next
moinor releases are out). Patch attached.
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