Okay, I don't want to force an initdb just for this either. But if we do one for other reasons, it's toast.
I don't see why an initdb is required: if we want to remove it, we can replace the function's implementation with elog(ERROR, "this function has been removed"), or the like. The difference between doing that much and actually removing the function's catalog entry is pretty negligible from the user's POV. The next time we bump the catalog version (either during beta or during the 8.1 cycle), we can remove the catalog entry for the function.
That said, I don't see the need to get rid of the function in time for 8.0, and it would be nice to have a more public notice of deprecation (the release notes) to give users fair warning before we remove it.
-Neil
P.S. I hope everyone had a good summer!
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