On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Chris Bovitz <Christopher.Bovitz@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have 8.1.3 on our operational and development database servers and will > upgrade to 8.3.3 (development) and 8.2.9 (operations) soon. (We will not > upgrade both systems' databases now because we've already tested 8.2 on our > web server database for the past year, so it's already spent time in > "development.") I have read through the server upgrade notes, and they seem > to be pretty self-explanatory. It's even mentioned how to upgrade the > client. And that's where my questions lie. > > The clients on our workstations were installed when our 8.1.3 was installed, > which I was not involved with. When I do "psql --version" on a client > machine, it says "8.0.3". When I do this on the server, I get "8.1.3". > > Do we need to upgrade the clients? Should we? If so to which version? > What is involved with that? That is, other than the note in the > upgrade/installation man pages, is there a set of instructions for upgrading > the client-side software? If we don't have to upgrade now, when would we > have to? Are there any things to watch for I should be aware of? From the perspective of libpq it's not a huge deal, but psql needs to match to make the \ commands work properly. Upgrading the client is pretty simple. Remove the old client packages and install the new ones.
