From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: Chris Bovitz <Christopher.Bovitz@noaa.gov>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Upgrade clients when (major) upgrading server?
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:13:24 -0600
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Chris Bovitz
<Christopher.Bovitz@noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
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