Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > We have always allowed old clients to connect to new servers, but often
> > break new servers connecting to old clients. I think this is documented
> > somewhere, but it rarely comes up as an issue.
> So, what do we do in this case, where an OLDER client (<=7.2.3) connects
> to a new (>=7.3) server, and BASIC stuff like backslash commands BREAK
> because of the schema stuff?
>
> IT NEEDS TO BE AT LEAST DOCUMENTED PROMINENTLY.
In the case you are describing, it is new clients connecting to old
servers. We have had several releases where this caused problems but
received few error reports.
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