Re: [BUGS] Bug #828: psql in 7.3 can't talk to 7.1 backends

2002-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess we should get the version & refuse to connect... We deliberately don't do that in psql. Not having working backslash commands is not necessarily a fatal lack of functionality --- if you're just going to issue regular SQL commands then psql will

Re: [BUGS] Bug #828: psql in 7.3 can't talk to 7.1 backends

2002-12-01 Thread Philip Warner
At 08:23 AM 1/12/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe this is a locale thing; but ISTM it should issue a more meaningful message or refuse to connect. It's a schema thing; can't talk to 7.2 either. Queries sent to backend at startup include: BEGIN; SELECT usesuper FROM pg_catalog.pg_

[BUGS] Bug #828: psql in 7.3 can't talk to 7.1 backends

2002-12-01 Thread pgsql-bugs
Philip Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) reports a bug with a severity of 4 The lower the number the more severe it is. Short Description psql in 7.3 can't talk to 7.1 backends Long Description acheron:/home/pjw/work/postgresql-7.3/src/bin/pg_dump # /var/lib/pgsql-7.3/bin/psql -p 5432 pjw ERROR: parse