Re: v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ...

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ...
Date: 2003-01-11 02:33:56
Message-ID: 20030111103251.A45491-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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> Right. It is just the _cruft_ factor that has prevented us from doing
> it in the past.

Well, you could always have the function library for each different
version in a different shared lib which you load on demand.

Alternatively, follow the phpPgAdmin3 style and have a class 'Postgres71'
and from that inherit 'Postgres72' and override any functions that have
changed, etc.

Chris

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