Re: Patch to change psql default banner v6 - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Patch to change psql default banner v6
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Msg-id 482CBF63.6040604@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Patch to change psql default banner v6  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Responses Re: Patch to change psql default banner v6  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: Patch to change psql default banner v6  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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David Fetter wrote:
>
> I hate to bike-shed this even further, but I'd like to make those
> "incompatibility" messages just go away by making 8.4's psql (and all
> those going forward) support every living version of Postgres at the
> time of their release, so 8.4's psql would be able to talk seamlessly
> to Postgres 7.4 :)
>
>

I think you must have been out in the sun too long.

Just look at the pg_dump code if you want something of an idea of what
this would involve.

cheers

andrew

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