On 09.10.24 20:30, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
On 9 Oct 2024, at 19:15, Nathan Bossart <nathandboss...@gmail.com> wrote:
Another problem is that "deprecated" may or may not imply that the feature
will be removed in the future. IMHO we should be clear about that when we
intend to remove something down the road (e.g., "this flag is deprecated
and will be removed in a future major release of PostgreSQL").
That's a fair point, but if we don't aim to remove something we have, IMHO, a
social contract to maintain the feature instead and at that point it's
questionable if it is indeed deprecated. I guess I think we should separate
between discouraged and deprecated.
The dictionary definition of "deprecate" is "to express disapproval of",
which I think is about the same as your "discouraged". If we need
another term, then we should say something like "planned/scheduled to be
removed".
