On 15 July 2017 at 23:00, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> While it's too late in the v10 cycle to do anything very meaningful
> about this now, I am tempted to strengthen the deprecation notice's
> wording from "might disappear" to "will disappear".
"Will certainly disappear at some unspecified date" is a lot less
convincing than "will disappear in 2021 in Postgres 14". The specific
year and version number is irrelevant
but picking and naming a specific one makes it a lot easier to follow
through come that date.
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greg