On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> We keep re-litigating changes, either with pg_xlog, binaries, or
> pg_stat_activity, and at some point we need to settle on a
> policy. The usual "change" options are:
>
> 1. make the change now and mention it in the release notes
> 2. #1
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> . #3 and #4 would need to be weighted depending on
> whether choosing them would delay progress, e.g. it did delay progress
> on standard-conforming strings, but the delay was determined to be
> reasonable.
>
w.r.t. standard-conforming str
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Tom,
>
> * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > Stephen Frost writes:
> > > * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote:
> > >> 1. make the change now and mention it in the release notes
> > >> 2. #1, but also provide backward compatibil
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:57:13AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Tom,
>
> * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > Stephen Frost writes:
> > > * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote:
> > >> 1. make the change now and mention it in the release notes
> > >> 2. #1, but also provide backward co
Tom,
* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost writes:
> > * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote:
> >> 1. make the change now and mention it in the release notes
> >> 2. #1, but also provide backward compatibility for 5+ years
> >> 3. mark the feature as deprecated and remove/c
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:40:34AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Stephen Frost writes:
> > * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote:
> >> 1. make the change now and mention it in the release notes
> >> 2. #1, but also provide backward compatibility for 5+ years
> >> 3. mark the feature as deprecated
Stephen Frost writes:
> * Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote:
>> 1. make the change now and mention it in the release notes
>> 2. #1, but also provide backward compatibility for 5+ years
>> 3. mark the feature as deprecated and remove/change it in 5+ years
>> 4. #3, but issue a warning for
Bruce,
* Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 04:15:09PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Stephen Frost writes:
> > > If we take your approach to its logical conclusion then we should be
> > > planning to maintain all user-facing deprecated features for as long as
> > > the
