Re: Any reason to have heap_(de)formtuple?

Alvaro Herrera napsal(a):
> Zdenek Kotala wrote:
>> Tom Lane napsal(a):
>
>>> Well, aside from the gruntwork needed to convert all the core code that
>>> still uses the old APIs, there's the prospect of breaking extension
>>> modules that still use the old APIs. It's kind of annoying to have two
>>> copies of that code, but less annoying than removing it would be ...
>> What's about convert null array to boolean and call heap_form_tuple?
>
> Agreed, I started doing that some time ago ... it doesn't seem all that
> complicated.

Do you have any half patch?

> We could try to add a #warning if an external module uses
> the deprecated interface, for a couple of releases, and then perhaps
> drop it.

+1

Zdenek

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