Re: LOCK for non-tables

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I suggest also marking each item with a release in which we intend to do
>> it, so we don't have to try to remember whether a reasonable amount of
>> time has elapsed.

> You mean like the way the 9.1devel documentation says that
> contrib/xml2 will be removed in 8.4?  I wonder if we'll do anything
> either about deprecating the module or about changing the
> documentation before 8.4 is EOL.

Well, that one is a special case, because we knew perfectly well that we
hadn't replaced all the functionality of xml2 (and we still haven't).
I think the "official" deprecation list should only contain items for
which there's no blocking issue other than wanting to give users time to
migrate to an existing alternate solution.
        regards, tom lane