Re: Backward compatibility psql 8.1 to 8.2

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