Re: Obsolete functions istrue, isfalse, etc. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Obsolete functions istrue, isfalse, etc.
Date
Msg-id 16904.1223159989@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Obsolete functions istrue, isfalse, etc.  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> istrue
> isfalse
> isnottrue
> isnotfalse

>   Should we remove those now?  I suppose there is a slight chance that 
> 10 year old dumps might contain references to them?  But it is easy to 
> reimplement them in user-space should anyone need them.

Of course the other side of the coin is that it's not costing us
anything noticeable to leave them there.  But I have no strong objection
to removing 'em.

If we are going to get rid of them, I'd say we should also nuke
nullvalue() and nonnullvalue().
        regards, tom lane


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