On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:42:27PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:49:35AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > [Probably a silly question, but its something that I've been thinking > > about] > > > > Is there any problems running clients on Sid, but having your servers > > running stable? An example which springs to mind would be postgreSQL > > where the Sarge version is 7.x and Sid's client is > > postgresql-client-8.1.
> The answer is (as it is at many other times) "it depends." > > I don't recall off the top of my head, but the psql client might well be > able to speak to the older version of the server. In reality, the > client is just communicating using SQL (plus some meta commands), so > unless there has been some sort of non-compatible language change, you > are probably OK. > > For other programs, it just depends. However, I would wager that most > things that are network capable can either deal with different versions > of applications connecting together or have some sort of compatibility > (like NFS, which allows you to enable versions 2, 3 and 4 support for > clients). Ah of course. I now remember why I thought of this. I wrote a simple c program to access my postgreSQL database and when I updated, the c program would no longer work. This was due to a change in the libraries versions. Of course, a recompile worked ok. Thanks for the insight. It helps to see the "big picture" when some of the fog clears. :-) -- Chris. ====== Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entries point to etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once etch goes stable.
