| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Dickson S(dot) Guedes" <listas(at)guedesoft(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: proposal: psql concise mode |
| Date: | 2011-11-09 03:04:40 |
| Message-ID: | 25432.1320807880@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> We're essentially pretending that we support all server versions with
> this code, instead of erroring out on some definite old version and
> admitting "sorry, can't do it". ...
> I think we should draw a line somewhere about just how far back psql
> must support,
Says right at the top of the file:
* Support for the various \d ("describe") commands. Note that the current
* expectation is that all functions in this file will succeed when working
* with servers of versions 7.4 and up. It's okay to omit irrelevant
* information for an old server, but not to fail outright.
regards, tom lane
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