Re: Limits of backwards compatibility for psql's \d commands

Tom Lane a écrit :
> I'm fooling around with Guillaume Lelarge's patch to make psql's \d
> commands work with older server versions. The patch as submitted
> works with servers back to 7.4 (modulo a small bug or two). I tried
> to see what it'd take to make it work with 7.3. I count about a dozen
> trivial diffs and about three nontrivial ones --- nontrivial meaning
> I didn't see a simple fix right away. This seems a bit more work than
> is justified for a server version that the community has officially
> dropped support for, but I wonder if anyone feels hot about it?
>

I don't think we should add support for pre-7.4 releases.

I even didn't try to look at 7.3 release because it's not maintained
anymore. Anyways, if someone thinks it should be done, I can work on it.

> Pre-7.3 server versions seem entirely out of the realm of reason because
> they lack schema support, meaning all of those "pg_catalog." prefixes
> break, not to mention the joins to pg_namespace and the "schema" output
> columns. So it's just 7.3 that's worth debating, I think.
>

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