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Re: Retiring support for pre-7.3 FK constraint triggers

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-03-05T20:57:00Z
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> When poking around here I realized that defGetStringList was also left unused.
> It was added with the logical decoding code but the single callsite has since
> been removed.  As it's published in a header we might not want to remove it,
> but I figured I'd bring it up as were talking about removing code.

Hm.  Kind of inclined to leave it, since somebody will probably need it
again someday.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Remove ancient hacks to ignore certain opclass names in CREATE INDEX.

  2. Remove ancient support for upgrading pre-7.3 foreign key constraints.

  3. Support for INCLUDE attributes in GiST indexes

  4. Remove pg_dump/pg_dumpall support for dumping from pre-8.0 servers.

  5. Teach CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER to convert old-style foreign key