Tom Lane wrote:
>Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
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>>What's the practice in deprecating other "features"?
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>We generally don't ;-). Certainly 7.4 contains bigger incompatible
>changes than this one, and so have most of our prior releases.
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I thought I had seen discussions along the lines of "we'll give them one
cycle to fix it and then they are shot".
It does seem very late in this cycle to make such changes.
cheers
andrew