Re: Anyone seen this message?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Ned Wolpert <ned(dot)wolpert(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Anyone seen this message?
Date: 2007-07-12 19:53:54
Message-ID: 20070712195354.GB22973@alvh.no-ip.org
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Ned Wolpert escribió:

> In my current production environment, the PostgreSQL database server
> is the latest, 8.2.4. The apps that communicate with it are planned
> to be running on stock CentOS5 servers, with the default 8.1.x (8.1.9)
> client libraries. So, not only is psql 8.1.9 (which I don't use on
> that server) but the libpq.so is from the 8.1.9 install. Apache 2.2
> package uses the DBDriver module from the apr-util that was installed
> from CentOS, and we are planning to connect it to our PostgreSQL
> server. Is that a 'bad thing' considering the libpq.so is a different
> major version?

No. It is only a problem for psql because it uses some queries that
assume things about the system catalogs (for example psql 8.2 assumes
that pg_index.indisvalid exists, which it doesn't on 8.1).

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