What is it with PostgreSQL 7.4.x ... ?

[Vivek Khera]

On May 16, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> Cool ... but why isn't DEFAULT to be 81 in the first place? :)  81  
> is backwards

That I can't answer...

> compatible to 74 servers, but 74 client isn't forward compatible to  
> 81 ones :)


The command line client isn't always cross compatible with respect to  
meta-commands, so you really need to match versions for that.