Re: A deprecation policy - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
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In response to A deprecation policy  (Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>)
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> wrote:
> We often discuss changing user-visible behavior of various kinds and are
> usually clueless on the question of "someone might rely on this" or "how
> many people are still using this" etc.  Still, it is clearly often useful to
> revise interfaces from time to time.
>
> I have been thinking, with a semi-formal deprecation policy, we could make
> these decisions with more confidence.  My proposed policy goes like this:

+1!

This is a very good idea.

...Robert


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