On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 12:00:30PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 11:33:22AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I don't think we can do this as presented. Maybe we could do
> >> something like constrain the stored value to be only 0 or 1,
> >> but how much does that improve matters?
>
> > Well, then the question becomes will we retain useless system columns
> > forever?
>
> If the choice is "not break PHP" versus "get rid of a vestigial column",
> I know which one is the saner choice. There might be things that are
> worth breaking PHP for, but this isn't one.
I guess I just don't want to get into a situation where we have so many
useless backward-compatible system columns it is distracting.
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