Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> writes:
> Would postgres get considerably cleaner if a hypothetical 9.0 release
> skipped backward compatibility and removed anything that's only
> maintained for historical reasons?
Yeah, and our user community would get a lot smaller too :-(
Actually, I think any attempt to do that would result in a fork,
and a consequent splintering of the community. We can get away
with occasionally cleaning up individual problematic behaviors
(example: implicit casts to text), but any sort of all-at-once
breakage would result in a lot of people Just Saying No.
regards, tom lane