On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Chris Bovitz
<Christopher(dot)Bovitz(at)noaa(dot)gov> wrote:
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> Does it matter which version - 8.3.3 or 8.2.9 - we install on our client
> boxes? Is the client-side backwards compatible? Or should we install both
> and have a wrapper for the "psql" script to detect which database we're
> going to and use the appropriate binaries?
psql itself is not backwards / forwards compatible. libpq is. So if
you need to talk to 8.2 and 8.3 databases from psql, then it's a good
idea to have both.