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?
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. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers