On Monday 29 August 2005 00:33, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > On a slightly related note, I've noticed that psql isn't backward
> > compatible.
>
> We have never expected psql's \d commands to work against older server
> versions, and two months after feature freeze isn't the time to start
> making that happen.
>
That said, number of folks have looked at this problem and agree it would be
nice to do, they just haven't formed a consensus on how to do it. If you
have a plan for how you would want to approach this in 8.2, feel free to post
it.
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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
