Re: about EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH

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?

cheers

andrew