Re: v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ...
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Msg-id 20030110202034.C13366@hub.org
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In response to Re: v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ...  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ...  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier writes:
>
> > We've started to upgrade the client machines, before upgrading the server
> > itself, but it looks like the psql client isn't backwards compatible?
>
> The meta-commands are not, because they now need to be schema aware.

How hard would it be to add in a simple version check, like Robert Treat
suggested?  Where, when you type in \d, it uses a pre-v7.3 schema if
attached to a pre-v7.3 server?  With the changes that have gone in since
v7.3.1, we're going to need to do a v7.3.2 anyway ...


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