Re: about EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: about EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH
Date: 2011-10-15 13:37:00
Message-ID: 1318685820.30386.2.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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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.

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