Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CA22E0320 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:21:40 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 53155-07 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:21:23 -0400 (AST) Received: from outG.internet-mail-service.net (outG.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.230]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72B22E0321 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:21:35 -0400 (AST) Received: from mx0.idiom.com (HELO idiom.com) (216.240.32.160) by out.internet-mail-service.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:21:33 -0800 X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e Received: from [192.168.1.109] (adsl-71-135-191-42.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [71.135.191.42]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD89D127173 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:21:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47B1573C.9070402@obviously.com> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:22:20 -0800 From: Bryce Nesbitt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20070803 SUSE/1.1.7-0.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Backward compatibility psql 8.1 to 8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.194 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL=0.193, BAYES_50=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200802/86 X-Sequence-Number: 30177 I'm getting the dreaded psql warning: WARNING: You are connected to a server with major version 8.1, but your psql client is major version 8.2. Some backslash commands, such as \d, might not work properly. And indeed, most stuff works, but \d for a specific table fails. Has there been talk of making a backwards compatibility nod here? I don't want to downgrade my development machine, and I don't control the remote machine. How fundamentally different is the protocol -- and would it be feasible to support both? -Bryce