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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:32:55 +0000
From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
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To: Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com>
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Subject: Re: Backward compatibility psql  8.1 to 8.2
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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