Re: Refactoring psql for backward-compatibility - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:20:46AM +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >Neil Conway suggested something like a get_function_list(), which I
> >presume would be called on connect, and would be version-aware.
> >Does this seem like a good idea?  If so, what might an
> >implementation look like?  I know C isn't all that great for
> >function overloading, so do we want to keep all the SQL for all
> >previous versions in memory, or...?
> 
> If it was me I'd just copy the pg_dump way of doing things...

To the extent possible, I'd like to preserve the exact functionality
(or lack thereof) of previous versions.  Would this be possible that
way?

Cheers,
D
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