On ons, 2010-10-13 at 23:25 -0400, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
> Would anyone favor instead back-patching the documentation for the
> 8.3, 8.2, and 8.1 branches to include mentions of these
> previously-undocumented functions, instead? In
> <http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2004-08/msg00015.php>, Tom
> opined that they should be left undocumented, but I really don't agree
> with that.
The sets of intentionally documented and undocumented functions is part
of the API specification of a release, and we're not changing that after
the release, especially not when a future release ends up reverting the
change.
