Hi,
On 2020-03-03 12:10:15 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> In short, I propose ripping out OPAQUE entirely.
+1
> I wouldn't lobby too hard against removing the auto-shell-type hack
> either, but it's not actually type-unsafe and it doesn't require
> very much code to support, so the case for removing it seems a lot
> weaker than that for getting rid of OPAQUE.
I'm mildly in favor for for ripping those out too. I can't really
imagine there's a lot of users left, and they shouldn't be hard to
migrate. I don't think it'll get meaningfully fewer / easier if we just
wait another two years - seeems likely that auto shell type using code
isn't touched much.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
