Re: hstore isexists - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: hstore isexists
Date
Msg-id 20061011205719.GS13487@nasby.net
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In response to Re: hstore isexists  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: hstore isexists  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: hstore isexists  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 04:17:19PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:04:10AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >  
> >>Teodor Sigaev wrote:
> >>    
> >>>It's possible to create function 'exists' and mention only it in docs.
> >>>      
> >>Good point. Will you do that, or do you want me to?
> >>    
> > 
> >ISTM it would be better to mention the deprecated version and
> >explicitly state that it's deprecated.
> >
> >  
> 
> If we had had this in contrib previously with the deprecated call I 
> would agree. But it seems like bad practice and unnecessary clutter to 
> start off by deprecating something.

Sorry, I don't know the history of hstore... but if it's brand new, why
are we worried about backwards compatibility?
-- 
Jim Nasby                                            jim@nasby.net
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