Subject: bug#24353: 25.1.1: looking-back wrong info

From: Clément Pit--Claudel <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 13:35:01 -0400

On 2016-09-02 19:59, Drew Adams wrote:
>> > thus making their code likely faster. Users like faster programs.
> The right way to _encourage_ programmers to use it is to
> tell them precisely that: "Using LIMIT is recommended - it
> typically results in faster code."
> 
> Or "strongly recommended".  Or "You're nuts if you omit LIMIT!"
> Or whatever other positive or negative encouragement you think
> might be most effective and appropriate.
> 
> Telling them nothing about this and, instead, just showing a
> false signature, does NOT help them.

This sounds wrong.  The signature change causes warnings on all uses that don't specify LIMIT.  That's how I learnt about the change; I wouldn't have updated my code otherwise.

So changing the advertised signature seems to help, if only due to the warning side-effect.

Clément.