Re: obsolete code

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: obsolete code
Date: 2013-02-01 16:06:34
Message-ID: 510BE80A.1060904@dunslane.net
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On 02/01/2013 10:38 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> fmgr.c contains this:
>> * DEPRECATED, DO NOT USE IN NEW CODE
>> Should we just drop all support for the old interface now?
> Is there any actual benefit to removing it? I don't recall that
> it's been the source of any maintenance burden. I'd be fine with
> dropping it if it were costing us something measurable, but ...
>
>

My hope was that if we got rid of the old stuff we wouldn't need to use

PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(myfunc);

in external modules any more (I recently got bitten through forgetting
this and it cost me an hour or two).

cheers

andrew

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