From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Limits of backwards compatibility for psql's \d commands |
Date: | 2008-07-02 05:32:14 |
Message-ID: | 486B12DE.8060100@commandprompt.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm fooling around with Guillaume Lelarge's patch to make psql's \d
> commands work with older server versions. The patch as submitted
> works with servers back to 7.4 (modulo a small bug or two). I tried
> to see what it'd take to make it work with 7.3. I count about a dozen
> trivial diffs and about three nontrivial ones --- nontrivial meaning
> I didn't see a simple fix right away. This seems a bit more work than
> is justified for a server version that the community has officially
> dropped support for, but I wonder if anyone feels hot about it?
>
> Pre-7.3 server versions seem entirely out of the realm of reason because
> they lack schema support, meaning all of those "pg_catalog." prefixes
> break, not to mention the joins to pg_namespace and the "schema" output
> columns. So it's just 7.3 that's worth debating, I think.
EOL is EOL, why is the question even being asked?
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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