Re: 8.0 Open Items

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> I see it in the SGML docs:

> Warning: <literal><function>to_char</function>(<type>interval</type>, <type>text</type>)</literal>
> is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code. It will be removed in the next version.

> I suppose that is enough warning. Is it fair to remove things during
> beta though, especially since it wasn't mentioned in the 7.4 release
> notes but just the docs? Of course, if it is buggy, that might be a
> reason to remove it anyway.

The reason that that warning is in the 7.4 docs is that we already knew
it was buggy before 7.4 release. (In fact I'm pretty sure this most
recent bug report is a duplicate.)

> Let's keep it in the release notes and if we remove it via initdb we can
> just update the release notes to say it is now removed in 8.0.

Okay, I don't want to force an initdb just for this either. But if we
do one for other reasons, it's toast.

regards, tom lane