From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Allow psql to work against non-tablespace servers (e.g. |
Date: | 2004-08-18 00:36:28 |
Message-ID: | 200408180036.i7I0aSg25927@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> >> If I get time, I will begin making psql backward-compatible to 7.3 and
> >> further, but the changes to do so will not be as small as this patch
> >> and I would rather they get evaluated separately.
> >
> > But do we want to do this? Is it worth doing, and maintaining?
>
> I think so, within reason. Certainly going back to 7.4 is worthy, and
> probably 7.3 as well. Going back to 7.2 is probably not: in addition
> to major changes due to schemas appearing, it is a pretty old version
> at this point. People have certainly expressed interest in the past
> as far making psql backwards-compatible, and I think the code can be
> kept fairly clean.
>
> At least we are guaranteed to compile against current libraries - apps
> outside the source tree never get that luxury and have worse
> compatibility problems. :)
The issue is that no one has been asking for this functionality, and I
can imagine it becoming quite a mess after a few releases.
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