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Re: Something for the TODO list: deprecating abstime and friends

Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>

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From: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-07-16T20:27:32Z
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On 15 July 2017 at 23:00, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> While it's too late in the v10 cycle to do anything very meaningful
> about this now, I am tempted to strengthen the deprecation notice's
> wording from "might disappear" to "will disappear".

"Will certainly disappear at some unspecified date" is a lot less
convincing than "will disappear in 2021 in Postgres 14". The specific
year and version number is irrelevant
but picking and naming a specific one makes it a lot easier to follow
through come that date.


-- 
greg

Commits

  1. Add static assertions about pg_control fitting into one disk sector.

  2. doc: Remove PostgreSQL version number from xml2 deprecation notice