X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA16D1B4F3 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:27:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [64.117.224.130]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00334-10 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:27:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from trolak.mydnsbox2.com (ns1.mydnsbox2.com [207.44.142.118]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22325D1B4E3 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:27:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from dunslane.net (x.ncshp.org [199.90.235.43]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by trolak.mydnsbox2.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h88IJaR22133 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:19:36 -0500 Message-ID: <3F5CC9FE.5030103@dunslane.net> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:27:10 -0400 From: Andrew Dunstan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Postgresql Hackers Subject: Re: plpgsql doesn't coerce boolean expressions to boolean References: <15403.1063035632@sss.pgh.pa.us> <3F5CAC68.30502@pse-consulting.de> <19042.1063039625@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <19042.1063039625@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200309/567 X-Sequence-Number: 43579 Tom Lane wrote: >Doug McNaught writes: > > >>I agree with another poster that deprecation in 7.4 and removal in >>7.5 might make sense. >> >> > >How would we "deprecate" it exactly? Throw a NOTICE? > > > Release notes, I guess. A NOTICE would be fine as long as it didn't result in a flood of them. If that happened once at parse time that should be fine, I think. What's the practice in deprecating other "features"? cheers andrew