Re: about EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/15/2011 09:37 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to support some conditional syntax?

I suppose if we add that to psql we can remove this factility
completely.

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