| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)berkus(dot)org> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Removal of deprecated views pg_user, pg_group, pg_shadow |
| Date: | 2017-02-13 19:30:40 |
| Message-ID: | f45a7eaf-d158-61c9-1362-13a257115d0f@berkus.org |
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On 02/13/2017 11:00 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> My big objection to removing these views is that it will break pgAdmin
> 3, which uses all three of these views. I understand that the pgAdmin
> community is now moving away from pgAdmin 3 and toward pgAdmin 4, but
> I bet that pgAdmin 3 still has significant usage and will continue to
> have significant usage for at least a year or three. When it's
> thoroughly dead, then I think we can go ahead and do this, unless
> there are other really important tools still depending on those views,
> but it's only been 3 months since the final pgAdmin 3 release.
How long would you suggest is appropriate? Postgres 11? 12? Let's set
a target date; that way we can communicate it more than once.
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Josh Berkus
Containers & Databases Oh My!
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