| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ... |
| Date: | 2003-01-11 00:40:40 |
| Message-ID: | 200301110040.h0B0eep01375@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> > Marc G. Fournier writes:
> >
> > > We've started to upgrade the client machines, before upgrading the server
> > > itself, but it looks like the psql client isn't backwards compatible?
> >
> > The meta-commands are not, because they now need to be schema aware.
>
> How hard would it be to add in a simple version check, like Robert Treat
> suggested? Where, when you type in \d, it uses a pre-v7.3 schema if
> attached to a pre-v7.3 server? With the changes that have gone in since
> v7.3.1, we're going to need to do a v7.3.2 anyway ...
There are quite a few queries in there, so they would have to be doubled
up for pre/post 7.3.
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