Re: pg_config --version

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 03:16:37PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 9:16 AM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> > While updating some extensions, I noticed that pg_config --version
> > produces output that's...maybe not quite as useful as it might be, at
> > least to a machine, so I'd like to throw out some proposals to fix the
> > situation.
> >
> > Add a --version-numeric option to pg_config
> >
> > or
> > Replace the current --version option with its bare numeric version
> >
> > or
> > Add another line of output to the current --version output, which
> > would be the numeric version by itself
> >
> > What say?
>
> You may want to look at this thread that treats more or less the same topic:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqTAdAJpX8iK4V3uYJbO2Kmo8rHzqJKDsLaDdranNrGX_A@mail.gmail.com
> And this has resulted in commit a5d489cc:
> commit: a5d489ccb7e613c7ca3be6141092b8c1d2c13fa7
> author: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 17:24:36 -0400
> Make numeric form of PG version number readily available in Makefiles.
>
> I would imagine that the common position has not changed much since,
> and as Makefile.global.in provides this data... Doing more work in
> pg_config is not really necessary for extensions.

Thanks for the tip. :)

Since at least two people ran across this independently, perhaps more
documentation is in order.

Best,
David.
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