Re: Which installation parts are backward compatible?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Which installation parts are backward compatible?
Date: 2009-02-12 15:26:46
Message-ID: 20090212152646.GF2927@alvh.no-ip.org
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut escreveu:
> > If no such list exists yet, perhaps we can complete the above one, document
> > it, and pass it on to the packagers.
> >
> Are you suggesting that if an user has 7.4 and install 8.3 then the package
> will replace psql-7.4 with psql-8.3? It will confuse users more that help them
> (psql --version ?) and we will have extra effort to maintain the compatibility
> version list at each binary.

psql is already compatible with old versions. I don't think we should
throw away that work by not maintaining it.

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