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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Documenting removal of nonnullvalue() and friends
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:00:06 +0300
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On ons, 2010-10-13 at 23:25 -0400, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
> Would anyone favor instead back-patching the documentation for the
> 8.3, 8.2, and 8.1 branches to include mentions of these
> previously-undocumented functions, instead? In
> <http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2004-08/msg00015.php;, Tom
> opined that they should be left undocumented, but I really don't agree
> with that.

The sets of intentionally documented and undocumented functions is part
of the API specification of a release, and we're not changing that after
the release, especially not when a future release ends up reverting the
change.

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