| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] remove deprecated v8.2 containment operators |
| Date: | 2020-10-27 08:46:34 |
| Message-ID: | CABUevEy9uLiPXE5+dV=NYeaS944YXfDDXJWC_VaWiD2vw7r_eQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 9:38 AM Peter Eisentraut <
peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2020-10-27 04:25, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > Forking this thread:
> >
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/fd93f1c5-7818-a02c-01e5-1075ac0d4def@iki.fi
> >
> > They have been deprecated for a Long Time, so finally remove them for
> v14.
> > Four fewer exclamation marks makes the documentation less exciting,
> which is a
> > good thing.
>
> I don't know the reason or context why they were deprecated, but I agree
> that the timeline for removing them now is good.
>
IIRC it was to align things so that "containment" had the same operator for
all different kinds of datatypes?
But whether that memory is right nor not it was indeed a long time ago,
so +1 that it's definitely time to get rid of them.
--
Magnus Hagander
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