hallo magnus, thanks for your answer. > Just run the "make" and "make install" commands in subdirs > only. You will need to do it in src/interfaces/libpq and > src/bin/psql to get a working psql. that is the answer i was looking for. > But you can certainly have control over the version on the > client even if you use binary packages like .RPMs. Just > decide which version you install. The OS may come with a > pre-selected version by default, but for most OSes there are > RPMs or DEBs available for other versions as well that you > can install. the available versions are very different for every os, every version of the os, and so on. so i don't prefer this method but sometimes (or for other people maybe often) it works best regards christian