Re: Remove array_nulls? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Remove array_nulls?
Date
Msg-id 20766.1450460649@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Remove array_nulls?  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Remove array_nulls?  (Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>)
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Maybe I shouldn't put words in Andres' mouth, but I don't think that by
>> "indefinitely" he meant "forever".  I read that more as "until some
>> positive reason to remove it arrives".  I could imagine that at some point
>> we decide to do a wholesale cleanup of backwards-compatibility GUCs, and
>> then we'd zap this one along with others.

>​Hand-waving from me but I see a "positive reason" being that someone wants
> to write and commit a patch that does not play nicely with the old
> behavior.

Sure, that's also possible.  But no such patch is on the table now.
        regards, tom lane



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