Re: [PATCHES] Version checking when loading psql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [PATCHES] Version checking when loading psql
Date
Msg-id 200111211532.fALFW6L04198@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] Version checking when loading psql  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
> > I'm sure this would annoy people.
>
> I'm of two minds about it.  It'd annoy *me*, but I know we have seen
> trouble reports from people who were using version-mismatched psql
> and didn't understand why some \d commands didn't work.  Maybe we
> should be catering more to newbies here.
>
> Any other opinions out there?

Seems heavy-handed to warn each time.  Could we plop a file in the
user's home directory and warn the first time it doesn't match?  That
seems like overkill too.  :-)

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