| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [BUGS] PSQL commands not backwards-compatible |
| Date: | 2005-08-31 02:20:07 |
| Message-ID: | 200508310220.j7V2K7s28670@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Tom,
>
> > They've been broken on a fairly regular basis in past releases.
> > Certainly 7.3 broke every single one because of the addition of
> > schema syntax ...
>
> Yeah, and we warned people about it, as I recall. Also, we had about 25x
> less users then. I think we should put something in the release notes:
>
> WARNING: 8.1's "psql" is not completely backwards-compatible with previous
> versions of PostgreSQL.
Here is a patch that will print out (in interactive mode only) a warning
message if a newer client connects to an older major numbered server.
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