On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> [ redirected from patches to general ]
>
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Greg Sabino Mullane writes:
> >> Attached is a little patch that simply verifies that the
> >> version of psql you are running is the same as the version
> >> of postgresql you are attaching to.
>
> > I'm sure this would annoy people.
>
> I'm of two minds about it. It'd annoy *me*, but I know we have seen
> trouble reports from people who were using version-mismatched psql
> and didn't understand why some \d commands didn't work. Maybe we
> should be catering more to newbies here.
>
> Any other opinions out there?
I'd rather know than not know. But anything more than a warning on
connect would be truly annoying. We've had mismatches on the hub
machines.
Vince.
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