On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > On 2015-12-18 12:06:43 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: >> Well, Tom, Alvaro, and I all pretty much said that removing things >> when it's blocking further development makes sense, but that there's >> no hurry to remove anything else. That sounds like what you are >> saying, too. So what's the actual disagreement here? > > I'm saying that 10 year deprecation periods don't make sense. Either we > decide to remove the compat switch because we dislike it for $reasons, > in which case it should be removed sooner. Or we decide to keep the > switch indefinitely.
Forever is an awfully long time. I think that it's OK to remove backward-compatibility features at some point even if they're not really harming anything. I think the time before we do that should be long, but I don't think it needs to be forever. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
