Thus short, simple but meaningful examples which show how to do something
useful with all that in the documentation may help people take advantage
of these new features.
I don't have an objection to providing an example. I wasn't terribly
impressed with Simon's version, but maybe we can do better.
That was just a quick idea to show how they could be used, probably it can
be improved.
I think it should be concrete, not partly abstract; and likely it needs
to be with \if not the variable proper.
ISTM that currently there is no "not". Maybe I do not understand your
sentence.
Given my experience with "\d*", I'm not sure I would assume that a new
psql feature would work with older servers.
I don't recall anyone questioning whether PQserverVersion() would work
with older servers. Being able to tell what version the server is is
sort of the point, no? If there were a restriction on what it would
work with, I would agree that that needs to be documented. But I
don't think "yes, it really works" is a helpful use of documentation
space.
Sure.
I can use psql without knowing that there is a libpq underneath, that it
contains a PQserverVersion function implemented since pg7, and that the
SERVER_VERSION_* variables introduced in pg10 or pg11 rely on that thus it
should work with pg7/8/9 as well. It is not obvious, as a new feature
could depend on any combination of server side functions, protocol
extension, client library functions or client code...
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Fabien.
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