Re: PSQL commands not backwards-compatible

Tom Lane wrote:
> This isn't a bug, it's a feature request.  We've never had backwards
> compatibility of psql backslash commands.

In the past, most of these usually worked.  As it appears now, most of
them won't work at all, so we should really put a bigger warning sign
somewhere, because in spite of this not being a bug, people will
probably consider it so and keep bothering us about it.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/