I didn't think we were supposed to throw an error on a mismatch, were
we?
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Hackers,
>
> Seems the functionality to detect old versions of the postmaster with
> newer psql doesn't work. Here, server is 7.2.1:
>
> $ psql alvherre
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "."
> Welcome to psql 7.3b1, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>
> Type: \copyright for distribution terms
> \h for help with SQL commands
> \? for help on internal slash commands
> \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
> \q to quit
>
> alvherre=> select version();
> version
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96
> (1 row)
>
> alvherre=>
>
> --
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