Re: Mark deprecated operators as such in their comments? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Mark deprecated operators as such in their comments?
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In response to Re: Mark deprecated operators as such in their comments?  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Excerpts from Greg Stark's message of jue mar 03 13:02:53 -0300 2011:

> But I'm not sure it's worth bothering. Filling in the description
> field is hardly the most annoying part of adding pg_proc entries for
> operators. If we could move most or all of the entries to an SQL file
> so that we didn't have to deal with commutator and negator oids and
> all that, that would save a lot of pain.

You seem to want to have a completely new way to describe contents of
pg_proc.h and pg_operator.h, from which the DATA and DESCR lines could
be generated.  Perhaps that's a worthy goal, not sure.  I'm not sure it
can be done with SQL though.

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