Daniel Convissor wrote:
Hi:
2) Droping columns isn't being done for pgsql because it didn't support doing so prior to 7.4. I'd like to add a database version check inside update.inc. I'm planning on adding the version discovery solely to /update.php. But I'm wondering if the core folks think would find it useful (and worth the cost) to add it for all connections via /includes/database.*.inc?
Maybe we should just drop support for Postgresql 7.3 and earlier. 7.4 was released 2003-11-17, so it's over 2 years old now. The current production release is 8.1, although 8.0, 7.4 and 7.3 all appear to be supported by the Postgres folks as well. Does anyone know of a good reason to maintain support for 7.3 and earlier? Dropping 7.3 seems like it would solve this problem with dropping columns, and probably a few other problems as well. ..chris