Re: Remove array_nulls?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> On 12/18/2015 09:12 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2015-12-18 12:06:43 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well, Tom, Alvaro, and I all pretty much said that removing things
>>>> when it's blocking further development makes sense, but that there's
>>>> no hurry to remove anything else.  That sounds like what you are
>>>> saying, too.  So what's the actual disagreement here?
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm saying that 10 year deprecation periods don't make sense. Either we
>>> decide to remove the compat switch because we dislike it for $reasons,
>>> in which case it should be removed sooner. Or we decide to keep the
>>> switch indefinitely.
>>
>>
>> Forever is an awfully long time.  I think that it's OK to remove
>> backward-compatibility features at some point even if they're not
>> really harming anything.  I think the time before we do that should be
>> long, but I don't think it needs to be forever.
>
>
> Why not just keep it at the same rate as our support policy? The feature
> gets 5 years, then it is removed.

I did discuss that exact question in several previous postings to this thread...

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