On 07/05/2011 11:23 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>
> Yeah. In particular, it conflicts with the ancient copy syntax which
> we still support for backwards compatibility with versions< 7.3. We
> can fix the immediate problem with something like the attached.
>
> (a) Should we do that?
yes.
> (b) Should we back-patch it to 9.1 and 9.0?
yes.
> (c) Should we consider removing compatibility with the ancient copy
> syntax in 9.2, and de-reserving that keyword? (Given that the
> workaround is this simple, I'm inclined to say "no", but could be
> persuaded otherwise.)
>
I'm inclined to say yes, but mainly because it's just old cruft. I don't
expect to be able,say, to load a pre-7.3 dump into a modern Postgres.
cheers
andrew