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

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Vivek Khera wrote:

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

'k, will give you point on that ... but, at least the CLI for 81 will 
connect and let you do things with a 74 database, even if /d doesn't work 
... 74-CLI won't connect at all to an 81 server ...

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