Re: Could postgres be much cleaner if a future release skipped backward compatibility?

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 14:08 -0700, Ron Mayer wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > What are the probabilities that the OpenACSes of the world will just
> > set the value to "backward compatible" instead of touching their code?
> 
> Would postgres get considerably cleaner if a hypothetical 9.0 release
> skipped backward compatibility and removed anything that's only
> maintained for historical reasons?

Probably not.  Most of the examples you cite of documented deprecated or
historical behavior would be one-line changes to get rid of.