Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 05:00:50PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sorry, I don't know the history of hstore... but if it's brand new, why > > > are we worried about backwards compatibility? > > > > Because it's been available for awhile outside of contrib (namely, > > on Oleg and Teodor's own site). So there are people using it. > > So wouldn't it make sense to document that the old functions are > depricated so those existing users will stop using them? Maybe the base > documentation isn't the best place for that... perhaps an UPGRADING > section.
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