Peter, > A release or two ago we added the version number to the psql welcome > banner. I noticed that quite a few people interpret that as the server > version. Somehow, the explicit display of the version numbers leads them to > make inferences that they would otherwise not bother about. Has anyone > else experienced that? I suppose there was a reason we added the version > number there, but I can't recall it. Could we make that more clear?
Well, Bruce just drafted a patch to warn when the PSQL version and the server version don't match up, because of PSQL incompatibilities. However, that won't help for minor versions. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
