From: Basil Hussain Date: January 8 2001 10:10am Subject: Re: MySQL 3.23.30-gamma List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/61026 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, > Regardless of that, if newer mysqldumps cannot work with servers prior > to 3.23.x, they should query the server version and display an > appropriate error message, telling the user what to do (downgrading > mysqldump): Either be compatible or tell that you aren't. Here's an idea: why not have the client utilities always display a message if the server and client versions do not match? This might be useful, for example, for alerting people trying to use 3.23 client features with a 3.22 server (or vica-versa). Regards, ------------------------------------------------ Basil Hussain (basil.hussain@stripped)