psql question

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#1Joseph Shraibman
jks@selectacast.net

Should psql 7.3 be able to connection to databases < 7.3?

#2Neil Conway
neilc@samurai.com
In reply to: Joseph Shraibman (#1)
Re: psql question

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:33, Joseph Shraibman wrote:

Should psql 7.3 be able to connection to databases < 7.3?

It should more-or-less work, but some of the "slash commands" might not
work, due to changes in the system catalogs (like the addition of
schemas).

Cheers,

Neil
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#3Joseph Shraibman
jks@selectacast.net
In reply to: Neil Conway (#2)
Re: psql question

Neil Conway wrote:

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:33, Joseph Shraibman wrote:

Should psql 7.3 be able to connection to databases < 7.3?

It should more-or-less work, but some of the "slash commands" might not
work, due to changes in the system catalogs (like the addition of
schemas).

That's why I asked. \d <tablename> gave me:
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "."

#4Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Joseph Shraibman (#1)
Re: psql question

Joseph Shraibman wrote:

Should psql 7.3 be able to connection to databases < 7.3?

No. New servers to old clients, only, not old servers to new clients.

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