Re: PSQL commands not backwards-compatible

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tom,
>
> > They've been broken on a fairly regular basis in past releases.
> > Certainly 7.3 broke every single one because of the addition of
> > schema syntax ...
>
> Yeah, and we warned people about it, as I recall.   Also, we had about 25x
> less users then.   I think we should put something in the release notes:
>
> WARNING: 8.1's "psql" is not completely backwards-compatible with previous
> versions of PostgreSQL.
>

I am working on a patch to warn on psql startup if the backslash
commands might not work.

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