Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Second, it's not nearly as easy as that: > . new commands have been added > . postgres features have been added > . catalogs have changed
Well, this just means a different piece of SQL needs to be sent for a command depending on the server version, right? It's not like that's tremendously different. The nice thing about most \X commands is that they embed everything they need in a bunch of SQL, and they don't need much else in C code. So it's not all that difficult. And for commands that have been added later, an initial version could just say "this server version does not support this command". It would be already a huge improvement. Probably the biggest change would be to support versions that did not have schemas, but I think it would be OK to punt on that. We already stopped supporting 7.2 anyway. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches
