On Thursday 01 September 2005 08:30, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > 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?
Yes I've seen the same frustration from users, I think the banner should say something along the lines of "psql client version foo connected to server bar version sfoo" -- Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. http://www.wavefire.com ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
