Tom Lane dijo:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)atentus(dot)com> writes:
> > Seems the functionality to detect old versions of the postmaster with
> > newer psql doesn't work.
>
> What functionality? psql has never had such a test. I think you
> are thinking of pg_dump.
No, I was thinking of psql. There was a discussion some time ago about
mismatching versions; I don't know where I got the idea that the
conclusion had been that if versions mismatched, psql would barf. (The
conclusion was to add the version number to psql.)
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]atentus.com>)
"No hay ausente sin culpa ni presente sin disculpa" (Prov. frances)