Re: PSQL commands not backwards-compatible

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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