Re: Remove array_nulls?

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.

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