| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| 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 13:58:33 |
| Message-ID: | 201110151358.p9FDwXe27641@momjian.us |
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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.
Well, frankly, I think the fact we were matching on minor version number
was even worse. This is slightly better. I guess they could use
symlinks to keep a config file for multiple versions, but I agree it
isn't a long-term great solution.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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