From: | Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
Cc: | greg(at)turnstep(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ... |
Date: | 2003-01-18 08:38:10 |
Message-ID: | 3E291272.9050205@postgresql.org |
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>>With ever more larger businesses adopting PostgreSQL, and that leading
>>on to more places having several versions of PostgreSQL in operation
>>simultaneously (i.e. development vs production) we're probably going to
>>need to give psql the ability to handle whichever version of the PG
>>backend it happens to connect to.
>>
>>Marc's suggestion of breaking psql into it's own sub-project makes good
>>sense from that point of view.
Hey, good point. Giving psql the ability to handle multiple backend
versions could be done in a number of ways.
> Subproject or not, why don't we just rearrange psql to dynamically load a
> library of functions, eg:
>
> libpsql72.so
> libpsql73.so
> etc...
>
> And in them you have functions like:
>
> printTableDef();
> printViewDef();
> etc...
Is this very different from how it's done at present?
:-)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
> Chris
>
>
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