From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Tue Jul 21 12:00:41 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F439A6C6D for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:00:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michelle@sorbs.net) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C514191F for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:00:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michelle@sorbs.net) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 7ABE39A6C6A; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:00:41 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7970B9A6C69 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:00:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michelle@sorbs.net) Received: from hades.sorbs.net (hades.sorbs.net [67.231.146.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C069191D; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:00:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michelle@sorbs.net) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from isux.com (firewall.isux.com [213.165.190.213]) by hades.sorbs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.29.0 64bit (built Jul 9 2013)) with ESMTPSA id <0NRU007CD6Z0MD00@hades.sorbs.net>; Tue, 21 Jul 2015 05:06:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <55AE3466.8070606@sorbs.net> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 14:00:38 +0200 From: Michelle Sullivan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100301 SeaMonkey/1.1.19 To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: pgsql@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Proposal to fix postgresql package maintainance nightmare References: <20150721094627.GD21594@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <55AE327F.8040300@ShaneWare.Biz> In-reply-to: <55AE327F.8040300@ShaneWare.Biz> X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 12:00:41 -0000 Shane Ambler wrote: > > I'm not sure of any strong need to have more than one pg client version > available. The newer client can connect to any older server and I don't > know of any issues when an old client connects to a newer server. There have been issues with the old client connecting to the new server and the new client connecting to the old server. They are rare and only usually affect the use of 'short cut' commands (ie things like: \d and \dt in the client)... the connection itself is usually both backwards and forwards compatible.... just not the commands. -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/