Re: parse errors when connecting to remote host

Version 7.3 psql using pre-7.3 database? You get similar errors with 7.2
psql on 7.0 database (though \d works, just not \df).

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 08:03:47PM +0200, Cornelia Boenigk wrote:
> Hi everybody
>
> When connecting to a remote host I get some strange parse errors. Here
> the output from the console:
>
> $ psql -h hostname -U username
> Password:
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "."
> Welcome to psql 7.3.2, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>
> Type: \copyright for distribution terms
> \h for help with SQL commands
> \? for help on internal slash commands
> \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
> \q to quit
>
> postgr=> \d
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "."
> postgr=> \l
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "("
>
> Other backslash-commands like \x \q \? \r are working as expected.
>
> my version: 7.3.2
> version on target host: 7.2.0
>
> Can anybody give some hints what's wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Conni
>
>
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