Ned Wolpert escribió: > In my current production environment, the PostgreSQL database server > is the latest, 8.2.4. The apps that communicate with it are planned > to be running on stock CentOS5 servers, with the default 8.1.x (8.1.9) > client libraries. So, not only is psql 8.1.9 (which I don't use on > that server) but the libpq.so is from the 8.1.9 install. Apache 2.2 > package uses the DBDriver module from the apr-util that was installed > from CentOS, and we are planning to connect it to our PostgreSQL > server. Is that a 'bad thing' considering the libpq.so is a different > major version?
No. It is only a problem for psql because it uses some queries that assume things about the system catalogs (for example psql 8.2 assumes that pg_index.indisvalid exists, which it doesn't on 8.1). Did you win the bet? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
