Re: [BUGS] PSQL commands not backwards-compatible

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Four years later, people were saying:
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> >> OK, this new patch prints a warning on any major version
> >> mismatch, newer or older.
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> > I would suggest showing both the client and server versions that
> > mismatched. If you're in a scenario with several versions on the same
> > machine of both client and server (hosting scenario, I'd imagine), that
> > would certainly help.
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> This all seems so familiar somehow... :)
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> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2001-11/msg00184.php

Yep.  I think the reason it is acceptable now is that the server version
is supplied automatically via the protocol, so we don't need to issue a
query on every psql startup to check it.

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