Re: Reverse compatibility

>>>>> "DO" == David Olbersen <DOlbersen@stbernard.com> writes:

DO> Vivek,
>> I can tell you for sure that using the psql command line client from
>> 7.3 will barf when connecting to a 7.2 server.

DO> Is "barf" a technical term? :)

Yes, but you only learn it in post-graduate comp-sci classes.

DO> Perhaps I wasn't being clear enough. What I want to do is upgrade
DO> the client software on this machine so that I can use it as a
DO> client for a 7.3 server. The only problem I worry about is any
DO> applications I don't know about which connect to the 7.2 server
DO> via the Pg Perl module, or something similar.

The C client library, ie, libpq, will speak with older and newer
versions of the server since the core protocol has not canged, AFAIK.

The command line programs and utilities are version specific.


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