From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: PSQL commands not backwards-compatible |
Date: | 2005-08-31 00:28:24 |
Message-ID: | 20050831002823.GC5038@fetter.org |
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 07:35:40PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> > > They've been broken on a fairly regular basis in past releases.
> > > Certainly 7.3 broke every single one because of the addition of
> > > schema syntax ...
> >
> > Yeah, and we warned people about it, as I recall. Also, we had
> > about 25x less users then. I think we should put something in
> > the release notes:
> >
> > WARNING: 8.1's "psql" is not completely backwards-compatible with
> > previous versions of PostgreSQL.
> >
>
> I am working on a patch to warn on psql startup if the backslash
> commands might not work.
In case of relenting on the feature freeze vs. bug thing, I am
preparing a patch that makes psql's \d commands backward-compatible to
8.0. I should have it out this evening or possible tomorrow for
review.
Cheers,
D
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