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

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: ... So it's just 7.3 that's worth debating, I think. EOL is EOL, why is the question even being asked? Well, pg_dump still supports servers back to 7.0 (and yes I do test that now and again). psql probably doesn't need to support

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

2008-07-02 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
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

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

2008-07-02 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2008-07-02 09:16:30 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think we should add support for pre-7.4 releases. I agree. It's not worth the effort. -- ams -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

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

2008-07-02 Thread Decibel!
On Jul 2, 2008, at 1:23 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: ... So it's just 7.3 that's worth debating, I think. EOL is EOL, why is the question even being asked? Well, pg_dump still supports servers back to 7.0 (and yes I do test that now and

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

2008-07-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 18:39 -0500, Decibel! wrote: On Jul 2, 2008, at 1:23 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: ... So it's just 7.3 that's worth debating, I think. EOL is EOL, why is the question even being asked? Well, pg_dump still

[HACKERS] Limits of backwards compatibility for psql's \d commands

2008-07-01 Thread Tom Lane
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

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

2008-07-01 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 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

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

2008-07-01 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 22:33 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: 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

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

2008-07-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: 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