Re: [HACKERS] Removal of deprecated views pg_user, pg_group,pg_shadow - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Removal of deprecated views pg_user, pg_group,pg_shadow
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Msg-id f45a7eaf-d158-61c9-1362-13a257115d0f@berkus.org
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Removal of deprecated views pg_user, pg_group, pg_shadow  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On 02/13/2017 11:00 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> My big objection to removing these views is that it will break pgAdmin
> 3, which uses all three of these views.  I understand that the pgAdmin
> community is now moving away from pgAdmin 3 and toward pgAdmin 4, but
> I bet that pgAdmin 3 still has significant usage and will continue to
> have significant usage for at least a year or three.  When it's
> thoroughly dead, then I think we can go ahead and do this, unless
> there are other really important tools still depending on those views,
> but it's only been 3 months since the final pgAdmin 3 release.

How long would you suggest is appropriate?  Postgres 11? 12?  Let's set
a target date; that way we can communicate it more than once.

-- 
Josh Berkus
Containers & Databases Oh My!



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