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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Retiring support for pre-7.3 FK constraint triggers
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> Having code which is untested and not excercised by developers (or users=
, if my
> assumption holds), yet being reachable by SQL, runs the risk of introduc=
ing
> subtle bugs.  Is there a usecase for keeping it, or can/should it be rem=
oved in
> 14?  That would still leave a lot of supported versions to upgrade to in=
 case
> there are users to need this.

Pushed.  Looking at the original commit, I noticed one now-obsolete
comment that should also be removed, so I did that.

			regards, tom lane