"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 5:08 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> * Personally I could do without the "empty" business, but that seems >> unnecessary in the tabular format; an empty column will serve fine.
> I disagree, but not strongly. > I kinda expected you to be on the side of "why are we discussing a > situation that should just be prohibited" though. I haven't formed an opinion yet on whether it should be prohibited. But even if we do that going forward, won't psql need to deal with such cases when examining old servers? regards, tom lane