Public bug reported:
I've just upgraded a client from precise to trusty. As part of that
upgrade, postgresql-client-9.1 was uninstalled and replaced with
postgresql-client-9.3. This broke the psql client's access to databases
that are listed in ~/.postgresqlrc as running version 9.1. If I run
psql dbname
I now get the following error:
Error: /home/username/.postgresqlrc line 2: version 9.1 does not exist
The relevant line of /home/username/.postgresqlrc looks like this:
9.1 dbhost:5432 dbname
This is correct according to the documentation: the postgresqlrc(5) man
page describes the VERSION column as "The major PostgreSQL version *of
the cluster to connect to*" (emphasis mine). Note also the comment in
/usr/share/postgresql-common/pg_wrapper that says:
# for psql we always want the latest version, as this is backwards compatible
# to every major version that that we support
Unfortunately the flow of control never reaches that point in the code;
user_cluster_map() (in PgCommon.pm) calls version_exists(9.1) and throws
an error because *on the client* there is only version 9.3. The check is
erroneous since it assumes that the client and the server have the same
versions of PostgreSQL installed.
I could lie to the wrapper and claim that the database cluster runs
version 9.3, were it not for the fact that /home/username is on a
network share and the same file needs to work for both precise and
trusty (and wheezy) clients.
This report is about Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, with version 154 of postgresql-
client-common. I haven't researched whether any other releases are
affected.
** Affects: postgresql-common (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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/usr/bin/psql misinterprets cluster version in ~/.postgresqlrc
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