Re: Issues with using 7.1 frontend, 7.0 backend?

Mark Stosberg writes:

> Hello! We currently have a situation in our group of servers where a
> machine with Postgres 7.1 libraries is using the Perl DBI to access a
> maching runing Postgres 7.0. Until we can get the other instance of
> Postgres upgraded, are they oddities we should expect from this
> mis-matched configuration?

This should work without problems.

> So far in testing, we haven't found any problems with the Perl
> interface. using psql in this manner doesn't work well, but we can
> easily avoid that in our case.

psql can be expected to be a bit more version specific.

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