X-Original-To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (developer.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112D6925838 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 05:43:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (developer.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193:10024]) (amavisd-new) with ESMTP id 40846-02 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 05:43:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp02.web.de [217.72.192.151]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9006925821 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 05:43:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from p5081842b.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([80.129.132.43] helo=web.de) by smtp.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (WEB.DE 4.98 #232) id 19KEVP-0001vv-00 for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Mon, 26 May 2003 11:43:00 +0200 Message-ID: <3ED1E1A7.7020400@web.de> Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 11:43:03 +0200 From: Andreas Pflug User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Version compatibility notes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Archive-Number: 200305/14 X-Sequence-Number: 1784 While discussing embedding help for PostgreSQL sql language syntax into pgAdmin III, we found it would be desirable if the latest documentation includes some notes about backward compatibility for each command. This could be in the "Compatibility" section, stating which minimum backend version is required to support the command or option. This shouldn't be too much work for the upcoming 7.4 documentation to mark the 7.4 extensions. According to the results of the user survey, a lot of users still have 7.2 running, so they might appreciate 7.3 extensions as well. This would cover >85 % of users. Speaking specifically of pgAdmin III, only 7.3+ is supported, because we rely on dependency tracking etc. Regards, Andreas