On 10/15/2011 09:37 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tor, 2011-10-13 at 11:31 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> The attached patch changes this to use the _major_ version number for
>> psql rc files. Does this have to be backward-compatible? Should I
>> check for minor and major matches? That is going to be confusing to
>> document.
> Contrary to what the subject suggests, I think the main reason people
> wanted this feature was to be able to set the linestyle to unicode
> without getting a warning from older releases about unknown linestyle or
> something. But in a few years, they'll have to
> maintain .psqlrc-9.2, .psqlrc-9.3, .psqlrc-9.4, etc. That doesn't sound
> like a useful long-term solution either.
>
>
Wouldn't it be better to support some conditional syntax?
cheers
andrew