Re: Allow psql to work against non-tablespace servers (e.g. - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Allow psql to work against non-tablespace servers (e.g.
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Msg-id 4122B48C.4000509@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Allow psql to work against non-tablespace servers (e.g.  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>>> At least we are guaranteed to compile against current libraries - apps
>>> outside the source tree never get that luxury and have worse
>>> compatibility problems. :)
>>
>>
>> The issue is that no one has been asking for this functionality, and I
>> can imagine it becoming quite a mess after a few releases.
>
>
> No messier than pg_dump (which yes, is quite messy :) )
>
>

It seems to me it will be a lot messier - pg_dump's functionality is
quite limited.

e.g. what will you do with dollar quoting or \copy's csv mode for
pre-8.0 backends?

cheers

andrew

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