On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 7:03 pm, Cornelia Boenigk wrote:
> When connecting to a remote host I get some strange parse errors. Here
> the output from the console:
>
> $ psql -h hostname -U username
> Password:
> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "."
[snip]
> my version: 7.3.2
> version on target host: 7.2.0
You've just pointed out the problem. I'm guessing it's schema-related. They
were added in 7.3 and so it's probably sending queries like:
SELECT * FROM pg_catalog.footable...
Looks like you'll either want to ssh to the remote host and use its psql, or
install both versions of the client.
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Richard Huxton