#208 √ invalid
Robby Russell

PQserverVersion not supported by this client version

Reported by Robby Russell | May 16th, 2008 @ 05:49 PM

Just upgraded to edge Rails and started to see this. It looks like the connection responds to server_version but libpq doesn't on my machine. Saw a few mentions of this on the old Rails Trac as well.

** Execute db:abort_if_pending_migrations

rake aborted!

PQserverVersion not supported by this client version.

vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:795:in `server_version'

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  • Robby Russell

    Robby Russell May 16th, 2008 @ 06:01 PM

    I'm running PostgreSQL 8.2.6 via MacPorts on Leopard.

    Gem: postgres (0.7.9.2008.01.09)

  • Tarmo Tänav

    Tarmo Tänav May 16th, 2008 @ 07:19 PM

    The error you're seeing should only exist in ruby-pg and not the postgres gem. The error is only compiled into ruby-pg if it determines your postgresql version to be older than 8.0. So you may want to make sure that you don't compile ruby-pg against an old version of libpq or just that you recompile ruby-pg.

    Note that if you have both postgres and ruby-pg gems rails will prefer ruby-pg, I believe ruby-pg is the more actively developed one.

  • rick

    rick May 16th, 2008 @ 07:37 PM

    • → State changed from “new” to “invalid”

    Closed at Tarmo's request.

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