Re: Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Let's drop two obsolete features which are bear-traps for novices
Date: 2014-11-02 12:54:39
Message-ID: 20141102125439.GE28295@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2014-11-01 16:59:35 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
>
> While there's argument about hash indexes, it looks like nobody minds if
> the MONEY type goes bye-bye. So, time for a patch ...

FWIW there have been somewhat recent patches for money and it was
undeprecated not too long ago. So apparently there's users for it out
there. I personally would never use money, but I doubt the gain is worth
the cost of breaking existing setups without a warning period.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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