| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: about EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH |
| Date: | 2011-10-14 15:07:14 |
| Message-ID: | 1318604736-sup-243@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie oct 14 09:36:47 -0300 2011:
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> Oh, true, we have that, though it's not very usable because you have to
> >> rename the file from .psqlrc-9.0.3 to .psqlrc-9.0.4 when you upgrade,
> >> which is kinda silly.
> >
> > True. We don't add configuration changes in minor versions so having
> > minor-version granularity makes no sense.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Checking for a minor match and then a major match seems sensible.
And backwards compatible too! +1 to that. An idea that you can
describe in six words doesn't seem all that confusing.
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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