Re: v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ...

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: greg(at)turnstep(dot)com, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ...
Date: 2003-01-18 05:52:10
Message-ID: 20030118135025.E3621-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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> With ever more larger businesses adopting PostgreSQL, and that leading
> on to more places having several versions of PostgreSQL in operation
> simultaneously (i.e. development vs production) we're probably going to
> need to give psql the ability to handle whichever version of the PG
> backend it happens to connect to.
>
> Marc's suggestion of breaking psql into it's own sub-project makes good
> sense from that point of view.

Subproject or not, why don't we just rearrange psql to dynamically load a
library of functions, eg:

libpsql72.so
libpsql73.so
etc...

And in them you have functions like:

printTableDef();
printViewDef();
etc...

Chris

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