David Fetter wrote:
>
> I hate to bike-shed this even further, but I'd like to make those
> "incompatibility" messages just go away by making 8.4's psql (and all
> those going forward) support every living version of Postgres at the
> time of their release, so 8.4's psql would be able to talk seamlessly
> to Postgres 7.4 :)
>
>
I think you must have been out in the sun too long.
Just look at the pg_dump code if you want something of an idea of what
this would involve.
cheers
andrew