Re: psql backward compatibility

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stephen Haddock <haddock(dot)stephenm(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql backward compatibility
Date: 2020-11-18 16:12:52
Message-ID: CAKFQuwZBYV4HRUN33bxp11zJQ3y5dqS8ACrRQ8PgjZd1mX9V3w@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 9:05 AM Stephen Haddock <haddock(dot)stephenm(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> It appears that 9.6 is able to run against the older cluster (DB service
> starts, queries work, etc)
>

If this is indeed what you've observed you've found a bug because a 9.6
service should not start at all if the data directory it is being pointed
to is from a different major version.

David J.

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