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From Tom Lane
Subject pgsql: Throw nice error if server is too old to support psql's \ef or \
Date
Msg-id E1ROeBg-0002U9-Vw@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Throw nice error if server is too old to support psql's \ef or \sf command.

Previously, you'd get "function pg_catalog.pg_get_functiondef(integer) does
not exist", which is at best rather unprofessional-looking.  Back-patch
to 8.4 where \ef was introduced.

Josh Kupershmidt

Branch
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REL9_1_STABLE

Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/07d5205582daa0a2b1472404f7929536d702e947

Modified Files
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src/bin/psql/command.c |   16 ++++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


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