Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > On 10/15/2011 09:37 AM, 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. > > > > > > Wouldn't it be better to support some conditional syntax?
I suppose if we add that to psql we can remove this factility completely. -- 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
