Re: about EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-10-15T13:37:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On tor, 2011-10-13 at 11:31 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> The attached patch changes this to use the _major_ version number for
> psql rc files.  Does this have to be backward-compatible?  Should I
> check for minor and major matches?  That is going to be confusing to
> document.

Contrary to what the subject suggests, I think the main reason people
wanted this feature was to be able to set the linestyle to unicode
without getting a warning from older releases about unknown linestyle or
something.  But in a few years, they'll have to
maintain .psqlrc-9.2, .psqlrc-9.3, .psqlrc-9.4, etc.  That doesn't sound
like a useful long-term solution either.