Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
At least we are guaranteed to compile against current libraries - apps outside the source tree never get that luxury and have worse compatibility problems. :)
The issue is that no one has been asking for this functionality, and I can imagine it becoming quite a mess after a few releases.
No messier than pg_dump (which yes, is quite messy :) )
It seems to me it will be a lot messier - pg_dump's functionality is quite limited.
e.g. what will you do with dollar quoting or \copy's csv mode for pre-8.0 backends?
cheers
andrew
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