Josh Berkus wrote: > Tom, > > > They've been broken on a fairly regular basis in past releases. > > Certainly 7.3 broke every single one because of the addition of > > schema syntax ... > > Yeah, and we warned people about it, as I recall. Also, we had about 25x > less users then. I think we should put something in the release notes: > > WARNING: 8.1's "psql" is not completely backwards-compatible with previous > versions of PostgreSQL. >
I am working on a patch to warn on psql startup if the backslash commands might not work. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
