Re: Anyone seen this message?

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This is one bet I'm glad to lose. :-)

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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).
>
> Did you win the bet?
>

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