Peter,
> A release or two ago we added the version number to the psql welcome
> banner. I noticed that quite a few people interpret that as the server
> version. Somehow, the explicit display of the version numbers leads them to
> make inferences that they would otherwise not bother about. Has anyone
> else experienced that? I suppose there was a reason we added the version
> number there, but I can't recall it. Could we make that more clear?
Well, Bruce just drafted a patch to warn when the PSQL version and the server
version don't match up, because of PSQL incompatibilities. However, that
won't help for minor versions.
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco