Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On tor, 2011-10-13 at 11:31 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > The attached patch changes this to use the _major_ version number for > > psql rc files. Does this have to be backward-compatible? Should I > > check for minor and major matches? That is going to be confusing to > > document. > > Contrary to what the subject suggests, I think the main reason people > wanted this feature was to be able to set the linestyle to unicode > without getting a warning from older releases about unknown linestyle or > something. But in a few years, they'll have to > maintain .psqlrc-9.2, .psqlrc-9.3, .psqlrc-9.4, etc. That doesn't sound > like a useful long-term solution either.
Well, frankly, I think the fact we were matching on minor version number was even worse. This is slightly better. I guess they could use symlinks to keep a config file for multiple versions, but I agree it isn't a long-term great solution. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
