Re: v7.3.1 psql against a v7.2.x database ...

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >
> > > Marc G. Fournier writes:
> > >
> > > > We've started to upgrade the client machines, before upgrading the server
> > > > itself, but it looks like the psql client isn't backwards compatible?
> > >
> > > The meta-commands are not, because they now need to be schema aware.
> >
> > How hard would it be to add in a simple version check, like Robert Treat
> > suggested?  Where, when you type in \d, it uses a pre-v7.3 schema if
> > attached to a pre-v7.3 server?  With the changes that have gone in since
> > v7.3.1, we're going to need to do a v7.3.2 anyway ...
>
> There are quite a few queries in there, so they would have to be doubled
> up for pre/post 7.3.

Right ... understood ... but all the queries should just be a matter of
pulling them from v7.2.x sources, no?