Re: [BUGS] PSQL commands not backwards-compatible

Could this be back patched to the older versions as well?

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Josh Berkus wrote:
>> Tom,
>>
>>> They've been broken on a fairly regular basis in past releases.
>>> Certainly 7.3 broke every single one because of the addition of
>>> schema syntax ...
>>
>> Yeah, and we warned people about it, as I recall.   Also, we had about 25x
>> less users then.   I think we should put something in the release notes:
>>
>> WARNING: 8.1's "psql" is not completely backwards-compatible with previous
>> versions of PostgreSQL.
>
> Here is a patch that will print out (in interactive mode only) a warning
> message if a newer client connects to an older major numbered server.
>
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