On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 07:35:40PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > 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.
In case of relenting on the feature freeze vs. bug thing, I am preparing a patch that makes psql's \d commands backward-compatible to 8.0. I should have it out this evening or possible tomorrow for review. Cheers, D -- David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 510 893 6100 mobile: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! ---------------------------(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
