Re: Updating psql for features of new FE/BE protocol

From: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
To: <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Updating psql for features of new FE/BE protocol
Date: 2003-06-25 20:54:23
Message-ID: 003801c33b5b$f5c53270$0a01a8c0@zeut2k
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From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> It would be easy (and essentially free, since libpq already gets the info)
> to add such a notice to psql startup. How do other people feel about
> it? How would you word the notice exactly?
> "psql: server version is FOO, psql version is BAR, some things may not
work"
> seems awfully vague, but I doubt we can be much more specific ...

Do we have any documentation on psql compatibility across versions? If so,
we could refer the user to that document. Might be nice to know that most
\commands will not work, but ad hoc queries will be fine.

Matthew

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