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/