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?
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