Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > > 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, "in a few years" they won't need that conditionality any more at > all, so I'm not sure I believe the above argument. The problem seems > inherently self-limiting. > > What struck me while looking at the patch is that it is conditional > based on *psql's* version. Not the version of the server you're > connected to. I'm not too sure what use-cases people have for version > dependence here, but I'd think that the server version would enter into > it sometimes.
The assumption is that the .psqlrc is controlling psql behavior. Not sure what setting would be changed based on server version, maybe psql variables. I have updated the docs to indicate it is the psql version. > (Of course, for server version to be used usefully, you'd need to > re-execute the rc file during \c, something we don't do now.) Yep, yuck. -- 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
