Re: version mismatch detection doesn't work - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: version mismatch detection doesn't work
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0209281224050.20389-100000@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: version mismatch detection doesn't work  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: version mismatch detection doesn't work  (Greg Copeland <greg@CopelandConsulting.Net>)
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Tom Lane dijo: 

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@atentus.com> writes:
> > Seems the functionality to detect old versions of the postmaster with
> > newer psql doesn't work.
> 
> What functionality?  psql has never had such a test.  I think you
> are thinking of pg_dump.

No, I was thinking of psql.  There was a discussion some time ago about
mismatching versions; I don't know where I got the idea that the
conclusion had been that if versions mismatched, psql would barf.  (The
conclusion was to add the version number to psql.)

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
"No hay ausente sin culpa ni presente sin disculpa" (Prov. frances)



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