On 09.10.24 20:30, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 9 Oct 2024, at 19:15, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Another problem is that "deprecated" may or may not imply that the feature
>> will be removed in the future. IMHO we should be clear about that when we
>> intend to remove something down the road (e.g., "this flag is deprecated
>> and will be removed in a future major release of PostgreSQL").
>
> That's a fair point, but if we don't aim to remove something we have, IMHO, a
> social contract to maintain the feature instead and at that point it's
> questionable if it is indeed deprecated. I guess I think we should separate
> between discouraged and deprecated.
The dictionary definition of "deprecate" is "to express disapproval of",
which I think is about the same as your "discouraged". If we need
another term, then we should say something like "planned/scheduled to be
removed".
