From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: New variable server_version_num |
Date: | 2006-09-02 13:12:48 |
Message-ID: | 200609021312.k82DCn009851@momjian.us |
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Patch applied. Thanks.
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> Today on IRC David Fetter and some others were discussing version
> numbers and we realized that although libpq now provides the version of
> Postgres as a number, this is still a wheel that is being reinvented by
> apps many times over, as it is not available any other way. Hence, a
> small patch to provide a new variable "server_version_num", which is
> almost the same as "server_version" but uses the handy PG_VERSION_NUM
> which allows apps to do things like if ($version >= 80200) without
> having to parse apart the value of server_version themselves.
>
> --
> Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
> End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/
> PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200607292113
> http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8
>
>
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