Re: @ versus ~, redux

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
>> I can see various things that we might consider doing:
>> 
>> 1. Just flip the names of the two operators added by the GIN patch.
>> 
>> 2. #1 plus flip the names of the various contrib operators that are
>>    out of sync (Michael Fuhr points out that contrib/intarray is out
>>    of step too ... are there others?).
>> 
>> 3. Leave the existing op names as-is in core and contrib, but consider
>>    them deprecated and add new ops with consistently-chosen names.
>>    (The new ops introduced by GIN should only exist with the new names.)

#3 looks good to me. Too many users. We should give them time for
upgrading. Probably, we need special chapter "To be obsoleted in the next
release" in Release notes.

>> 
>> #1 isn't doing anything towards solving the underlying problem.
>> #2 has got obvious backwards-compatibility issues for contrib users.
>
> +1 on #2 with the following caveat. When we publish the release notes, we 
> have a specific section that says:
>
> Compatibility changes from previous releases. Which IMHO should be there 
> anyway as there are always compatibility issues from release to release.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
    Regards,        Oleg
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