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

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