Re: Documenting removal of nonnullvalue() and friends - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Documenting removal of nonnullvalue() and friends
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Msg-id AANLkTikUKtngdLHCeqi=iERU6ydvQRcsW8EoaSwkrT3o@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Documenting removal of nonnullvalue() and friends  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Documenting removal of nonnullvalue() and friends  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I find the idea of things being intentionally undocumented quite
>> difficult.  How is someone coming along supposed to know which things
>> are intentionally undocumented and which things are unintentionally
>> undocumented?
>
> They should assume the lack of documentation is intentional.  Six or
> seven years ago your argument might have held some water, but we've
> been quite rigorous about requiring externally-visible features to be
> documented from the get-go.

That just doesn't match my experience.  We goof.  People find it.

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Robert Haas
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