Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
regards, tom lane
Tom Lane dijo:
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
It was I that originally brought the topic up. I don't really remember
the exact details but I do seem to recall that the author thought it was
a horrid idea. Basically and poorly paraphrased the response was that
everyone should use select version() after they connect and if they
don't know to
Hackers,
Seems the functionality to detect old versions of the postmaster with
newer psql doesn't work. Here, server is 7.2.1:
$ psql alvherre
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near .
Welcome to psql 7.3b1, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
Type: \copyright for distribution terms
I didn't think we were supposed to throw an error on a mismatch, were
we?
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Hackers,
Seems the functionality to detect old versions of the postmaster with
newer psql doesn't work. Here, server