On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:03, Andreas Pflug wrote: > Rod Taylor wrote: > > > I'm sure the pgAdmin group likes that idea (they're probably tired of maintaining > > 4 different versions of > >queries for getting a list of tables). Any solution to make psql backward or > >forward compatible should go an additional step to assist other frontends as well. > > > > > While I can agree on the statements that frontends like backend support > functions, in the case of tables for pgAdmin3 helper functions/views > don't seem too helpful. pgAdmin3 will not only try to display all > supported backend versions (currently 7.3, 7.4) correctly, but also > enable/disable additional functionality. Having different queries for > different backends is just a small part of the game, and the easiest one > too. Hiding the backend differences behind views or functions wouldn't > help too much.
Of course, psql has the same issue in hiding functionality that doesn't exist. My biggest beef is the psql help is often misleading if you're connected to a different backend. This would need to be a part of a solution if we're going to get anything out of it.
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