From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
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Subject: Re: Find out the version of the server
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Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> writes:
> On 11/29/24 11:15 AM, Igor Korot wrote:
>> Are you saying that the current version can connect even to 9.6.1
>> server? (I have a really old Mac with the 9.6.1 version installed).

> Yes.

Current libpq will probably work with servers back to around 7.0
(whenever we introduced the version-3 wire protocol).  We don't
routinely test it against anything older than 9.2, but I tried
current psql against 8.2 (the oldest functional server I have
on this machine) and it basically worked.

			regards, tom lane