On Tuesday, 27.03.2007 at 23:25 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > > [Probably a silly question, but its something that I've been > > thinking about] > > > > Is there any problems running clients on Sid, but having your > > servers running stable? An example which springs to mind would be > > postgreSQL where the Sarge version is 7.x and Sid's client is > > postgresql-client-8.1. > > > > I am guessing that you can't use the postgresql-client-8.1, i.e. > > psql, but would have to use ODBC or something similar. > > > > Do you have to worry about which versions of software your users are > > installing to access your servers, or, do you control all of that. > > No really, all new versions are able to communicate with older > versions. In fact in your server you need is what's more stable so > must of servers (with Debian) are Sarge or Stable and you can use them > even if you're in another thing different to Debian.
Generally, old-to-new and new-to-old will probably work fine for many applications. Your specific example, however, PostgreSQL: I found a *large* number of quirks and not-quite-bugs when attempting to communicate from a psql client on an old system to PG server on a newer one. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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