Re: Open 8.3 issues - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Open 8.3 issues
Date
Msg-id 200711250259.lAP2xio05324@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Open 8.3 issues  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Any feature additions to MONEY will be for 8.4.  What is this doing
> >> in the 8.3 list?
> 
> > The point is if we are un-depricating the data type, do we want to do it
> > with such limited usefulness?  I am concerned it will get wider usage in
> > 8.3 and therefore be harder to change.
> 
> Well, we are certainly not re-opening feature development now, so it's
> not clear to me what you hope to accomplish.  Are you proposing putting
> back the deprecation notice until you're satisfied that the type is
> complete?  If so, what are the criteria for allowing it to be
> un-deprecated?
> 
> I don't personally have a desire to ask for a bunch of new functionality
> to be added to MONEY.  If any such thing happens, it should be driven
> by requests from actual users of the type, not by arbitrary criteria
> invented by people who aren't using it.

It is a new problem so it is on the patches queue to see if anyone feels
it is an 8.3 issue.  If not, it will be moved to 8.4.  You have already
made your opinion clear.

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