Re: [GENERAL] *Old* PostgreSQL version

> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > > database_name=> select version();
> > > WARN:parser: Syntax error at or near "version"
> > >
> > > What else can I do? I can see from the dates of the files that it was
> > > installed sometime in mid-1997. What else can I use to find the
> > > version?
> >
> > That's a good one. There is a data/PG_VERSION file in the install
> > directory that should contain the version, though there was one release
> > where we forgot to update that. That may help. I assume you don't have
> > the source code, because the HISTORY file always has the version at the
> > top of the file.
>
> Yes, that did it! Thanks a lot. (6.1... Not *that* old after all. Or
> is it?) Perhaps it needs to be added to that question in the FAQ or
> something.

Well, now that we have version(), we hope it will be easier for people.

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