From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Backward compatibility psql 8.1 to 8.2
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:32:55 +0000
Message-ID: <47B159B7.1010807@archonet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47B1573C.9070402@obviously.com>
References: <47B1573C.9070402@obviously.com>
Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> 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?
Feasible no doubt, but fiddly and useless to most.
You can have multiple installations on the same machine. I think most of
the developers do as do many of the rest of us. What platform are you
running? Debian has built-in support for this, but you can do it
yourself for most installations.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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