| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: PG 9.0 and standard_conforming_strings |
| Date: | 2010-01-29 23:15:08 |
| Message-ID: | 201001300015.35134.andres@anarazel.de |
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On Friday 29 January 2010 23:54:15 Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > What about anouncing in the 9.0 releasenotes that it will be removed in
> > 9.1?
>
> That seems quite useless.
>
> I note that we've made such statements before and not followed through
> on them; one that just came up again is that contrib/xml2 is a couple
> releases past when it was said it'd be removed, and there is still no
> prospect of it really dying in the near future.
> The bottom line is that these sorts of changes take actual *work*,
> and not a trivial amount of it. No amount of blather in the
> documentation will substitute for somebody doing the work.
It is not about somebody doing the work, it is about lowering the impact a
bit.
Andres
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