Re: pgsql-server/ /configure /configure.in rc/Make ...

Tom Lane wrote:
> momjian(at)svr1(dot)postgresql(dot)org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> > As part of the work for making relocatable installs, I have re-factored
> > all the code that looks for other binaries. I move FindExec into
> > port/exec.c (and renamed it to find_my_binary()). I also added
> > find_other_binary that looks for another binary in the same directory as
> > the calling program, and checks the version string.
>
> Version string? What version string? Binaries don't have any checkable
> version info that I know of ...

binary -V echos a version string, and our code already was checking
that:

$ pg_dump -V
pg_dump (PostgreSQL) 7.5devel
$ postgres -V
postgres (PostgreSQL) 7.5devel

Actually, initdb was checking, but pg_dumpall was not.

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