remove psql support for ancient copy syntax

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

The attached patch implements Tom's recent suggestion to abandon the
undocumented psql support for ancient copy syntax. If there's no
objection I will apply before long.

Just to clarify: this means that \copy will not work when connected to
servers older than 8.0, right?

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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

The attached patch implements Tom's recent suggestion to abandon the
undocumented psql support for ancient copy syntax. If there's no
objection I will apply before long.

Just to clarify: this means that \copy will not work when connected to
servers older than 8.0, right?

No, "ancient" means "pre-7.3". Also it's only a problem if you try to
use one of the affected options ("with oids", "using delimiters").
Does not seem like a showstopper objection to me. OTOH, it's also the
case that all we're saving is a couple dozen lines of code ...

regards, tom lane