Re: COPY syntax improvement

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I have not modified pg_dump so that 7.3 dumps can be loaded into <=7.2
> > databases.  I have modified psql \copy to _only_ use the new syntax, and
> > to only send the new syntax to the backends.
> 
> Why not leave psql alone?  Seems to me you are gratuitously breaking
> backwards compatibility of psql, and gaining absolutely zero in return.

Yes, it was too late last night to think.  I have made \copy
backward-compatible, and it internally uses the old syntax.

> I know that a lot of 7.3 psql's other backslash commands will not work
> against pre-7.3 servers, but there's no help for that (short of making
> psql version-aware like pg_dump is).  I don't think that's a reason to
> break \copy too, when there is no need for it.

Yep.

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