| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Refactoring psql for backward-compatibility |
| Date: | 2005-12-15 01:35:37 |
| Message-ID: | 20051215013537.GB6529@fetter.org |
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:20:46AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >Neil Conway suggested something like a get_function_list(), which I
> >presume would be called on connect, and would be version-aware.
> >Does this seem like a good idea? If so, what might an
> >implementation look like? I know C isn't all that great for
> >function overloading, so do we want to keep all the SQL for all
> >previous versions in memory, or...?
>
> If it was me I'd just copy the pg_dump way of doing things...
To the extent possible, I'd like to preserve the exact functionality
(or lack thereof) of previous versions. Would this be possible that
way?
Cheers,
D
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