Re: version mismatch detection doesn't work

I didn't think we were supposed to throw an error on a mismatch, were
we?

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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Hackers,
> 
> Seems the functionality to detect old versions of the postmaster with
> newer psql doesn't work.  Here, server is 7.2.1:
> 
> $ psql alvherre
> ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "."
> Welcome to psql 7.3b1, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
> 
> Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
>        \h for help with SQL commands
>        \? for help on internal slash commands
>        \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
>        \q to quit
> 
> alvherre=> select version();
>                            version                           
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>  PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96
> (1 row)
> 
> alvherre=> 
> 
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