Re: about EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: about EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH
Date: 2011-10-15 13:41:03
Message-ID: 4E998D6F.4000509@dunslane.net
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On 10/15/2011 09:37 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tor, 2011-10-13 at 11:31 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> The attached patch changes this to use the _major_ version number for
>> psql rc files. Does this have to be backward-compatible? Should I
>> check for minor and major matches? That is going to be confusing to
>> document.
> Contrary to what the subject suggests, I think the main reason people
> wanted this feature was to be able to set the linestyle to unicode
> without getting a warning from older releases about unknown linestyle or
> something. But in a few years, they'll have to
> maintain .psqlrc-9.2, .psqlrc-9.3, .psqlrc-9.4, etc. That doesn't sound
> like a useful long-term solution either.
>
>

Wouldn't it be better to support some conditional syntax?

cheers

andrew

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