Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> > I don't see any other code in psql that allows it to run with older
> > server versions so it doesn't make sense to me to fix things just for
> > tablespaces, and doing it for everything seems like it would uglify the
> > code too much.
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> Tablespace are the only main difference between 8.0 and 7.4 as far as
> psql is concerned, so the patch will allow psql to work against 7.4
> servers seamlessly.
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> If I get time, I will begin making psql backward-compatible to 7.3 and
> further, but the changes to do so will not be as small as this patch
> and I would rather they get evaluated separately.
But do we want to do this? Is it worth doing, and maintaining?
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