On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Chris Bovitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does it matter which version - 8.3.3 or 8.2.9 - we install on our client > boxes? Is the client-side backwards compatible? Or should we install both > and have a wrapper for the "psql" script to detect which database we're > going to and use the appropriate binaries?
psql itself is not backwards / forwards compatible. libpq is. So if you need to talk to 8.2 and 8.3 databases from psql, then it's a good idea to have both. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
