> The argument I made for keeping the example around is not dependent on > the assumption that using a rule is a good idea. It's dependent on > the established fact that we have recommended that in prior releases, > and therefore people are going to be seeing that construct in real > databases.
And they could refer back to the older version of the documentation for it. In fact, we should mention that in the patch:
<note><para>If you have a partitioning setup that uses rules please refer to the 8.2 documentation on partitioning</para></note>