On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > One of the $64 questions that has to be answered is how much work we're > willing to expend on backwards compatibility. The path of least > resistance would be to handle it the same way we've done protocol > revisions in the past: the backend will be able to handle both old and > new protocols (so it can talk to old clients) but libpq would be revised > to speak only the new protocol (so new/recompiled clients couldn't talk > to old backends). We've gotten away with this approach in the past, but > the last time was release 6.4. I fully expect to hear more complaints > now.
Personally ... as long as a v8.x client can talk to a v7.x backend, you have my vote ... I'm more apt to upgrade my clients before my servers anyway ... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
