John Sidney-Woollett wrote:
> It will break any newly compiled version of psql expecting to work to
> the old behaviour. It won't affect anyone using an older version of
> postgres or psql (ie pre version 8).
Of course there are no backward compatibility issues when you keep using
the old version. The problem is that people will use the new psql
expecting it to behave like the old one. This isn't a small secondary
change; it fundamentally changes the interaction with the program.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/