| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] Version checking when loading psql |
| Date: | 2001-11-21 15:32:06 |
| Message-ID: | 200111211532.fALFW6L04198@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > I'm sure this would annoy people.
>
> I'm of two minds about it. It'd annoy *me*, but I know we have seen
> trouble reports from people who were using version-mismatched psql
> and didn't understand why some \d commands didn't work. Maybe we
> should be catering more to newbies here.
>
> Any other opinions out there?
Seems heavy-handed to warn each time. Could we plop a file in the
user's home directory and warn the first time it doesn't match? That
seems like overkill too. :-)
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