Re: Patch to change psql default banner v6

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
>> Second, it's not nearly as easy as that:
>> . new commands have been added
>> . postgres features have been added
>> . catalogs have changed
>>
>
> Well, this just means a different piece of SQL needs to be sent for a
> command depending on the server version, right?  It's not like that's
> tremendously different.  The nice thing about most \X commands is that
> they embed everything they need in a bunch of SQL, and they don't need
> much else in C code.  So it's not all that difficult.
>
> And for commands that have been added later, an initial version could
> just say "this server version does not support this command".  It would
> be already a huge improvement.
>
> Probably the biggest change would be to support versions that did not
> have schemas, but I think it would be OK to punt on that.  We already
> stopped supporting 7.2 anyway.
>

Have at it then. Prove me wrong.

cheers

andrew