Re: WIP: psql default banner patch

From: "Brendan Jurd" <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WIP: psql default banner patch
Date: 2008-04-23 00:07:46
Message-ID: 37ed240d0804221707q3f043c55x7565d637281a7b5f@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Why do we care, if the version matches? Not that I am feeling like
> fighting about it but it seems just a waste of bytes. It makes sense if
> the version doesn't match.
>

To take a field example, I have one site where I run an 8.2 production
cluster, an 8.3 application testing cluster and my a personal 8.4devel
cluster for hacking postgres.

In such an environment, it's *very* useful to have instant feedback on
which server I've just connected to with psql.

Cheers,
BJ
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