| From: | Herouth Maoz <herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il> |
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| To: | Dirk Drechsel <drechsel(at)glamus(dot)de>, pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [SQL] unknown error |
| Date: | 1999-10-20 10:35:30 |
| Message-ID: | l03130302b4334a8f357c@[147.233.159.109] |
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At 12:10 +0200 on 20/10/1999, Dirk Drechsel wrote:
> I had to install pgsql 6.3.2. because of compatibility reasons.
> The compiling part finishes without any problems and the html-access to the
> database works, too.
> The problem is - I cannot start the frontend psql and have following
> error messages:
> Connection to database 'postgres' failed.
> Unsupported frontend protocol.
>
> I've never come across any of these messages before.
The protocol that frontend applications (relying on libraries) use has
changed some time around 6.4. The message probably means that the frontend
applications are linked with the newer libraries, and your old 6.3.2
database can't understand them.
Herouth
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