Re: Limits of backwards compatibility for psql's \d commands

On Jul 2, 2008, at 1:23 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> ... So it's just 7.3 that's worth debating, I think.
>
>> EOL is EOL, why is the question even being asked?
>
> Well, pg_dump still supports servers back to 7.0 (and yes I do test
> that
> now and again). psql probably doesn't need to support interactive
> query
> operations quite so far back, but I think the boundary of what's
> needed
> is pretty squishy. Hence my query about what people really want.

Being able to get your data out of 7.3 is a lot more important than
\d commands... :)
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