Re: Remove deprecated -H option from oid2name - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Daniel Gustafsson
Subject Re: Remove deprecated -H option from oid2name
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Msg-id 8E276A00-8F85-4ED1-BF66-5F78FFFC7CBA@yesql.se
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In response to Re: Remove deprecated -H option from oid2name  (Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Remove deprecated -H option from oid2name
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> On 9 Oct 2024, at 18:33, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 10:08:31AM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> The -H option to oid2name was deprecated in v12, and with v12 going out of
>> support it seems about time to remove it for v18.  Not the most groundbreaking
>> cleanup, but also no point in carrying it around for 5 more years.
>
> Seems fine to me, although I don't see a problem with keeping it, either.

There is little to no cost in keeping it, but then we might as well remove the
deprecation notice.  If we keep marking things deprecated without removing them
then we risk being seen as crying wolf and users stop caring to update away
from things we really want to deprecate.

--
Daniel Gustafsson




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