[postgis-devel] Deprecation Warnings

[Obe, Regina]

Hmm although it really wouldn't be deprecate -- it would be lets remove them and allow people to reinstate them if they want as Kevin suggested.

Personally I don't care for warnings -- either keep it or get rid of it.  Warnings sounds like a lot of wasted log space which will probably only be seen by logs and potentially mysteriously slow down applications in the process.

Though I guess we must think of the children (Mapserver, GeoServer and ZigGIS and so forth which may be using the old names).  But then I suppose anyone using apps relying on deprecated names would just install the wrapper patch.


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Subject: RE: [postgis-devel] Deprecation Warnings
 
+2


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Sent: Fri 1/23/2009 4:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] Deprecation Warnings
 
+1, I like Cake.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Kevin Neufeld <kneufeld at refractions.net>wrote:

> What if we deprecate the functions as you suggest (and eventually remove
> them), but provide a sql script that will reinstate them as wrappers to the
> ST_* methods.  That way, folks can have their cake and eat it too ...
> upgrade to the latest version without breaking their apps.
>
> -- Kevin
>
>
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
>> Could we use the function creation option
>>
>> SET configuration_parameter { TO value | = value | FROM CURRENT }
>>
>> to, for example, set postgis_deprecated to true?
>> Then in the function, we could warn on deprecation. So the same
>> backend to intersects() could be used by several function names, but
>> only some would raise deprecation warnings.
>>
>> Or do we want to continue our gentle regime of letting the old names
>> live in quite obscurity?
>>
>> P.
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