Thread: Re: [PATCH] remove deprecated v8.2 containment operators
On 2020-10-27 04:25, Justin Pryzby wrote: > Forking this thread: > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/fd93f1c5-7818-a02c-01e5-1075ac0d4def@iki.fi > > They have been deprecated for a Long Time, so finally remove them for v14. > Four fewer exclamation marks makes the documentation less exciting, which is a > good thing. I don't know the reason or context why they were deprecated, but I agree that the timeline for removing them now is good. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 9:38 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
On 2020-10-27 04:25, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Forking this thread:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/fd93f1c5-7818-a02c-01e5-1075ac0d4def@iki.fi
>
> They have been deprecated for a Long Time, so finally remove them for v14.
> Four fewer exclamation marks makes the documentation less exciting, which is a
> good thing.
I don't know the reason or context why they were deprecated, but I agree
that the timeline for removing them now is good.
IIRC it was to align things so that "containment" had the same operator for all different kinds of datatypes?
But whether that memory is right nor not it was indeed a long time ago, so +1 that it's definitely time to get rid of them.