Re: How can I tell that the underlying OS is Windows?

My mistake.
I was connecting to remote machines and must have accidentally issued
the version on the same box :(

BSD is returning:

"PostgreSQL 8.1.5 on i386-portbld-freebsd6.1, compiled by GCC cc (GCC)
3.4.4 [FreeBSD] 20050518"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 3:39 PM
> To: Benjamin Krajmalnik
> Cc: Adam Witney; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org; Abraham, Danny
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] How can I tell that the underlying OS is Windows?
>
> Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote:
> > My Windows box says:
> > "PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled by GCC gcc.exe (GCC)
> > 3.4.2 (mingw-special)"
> >
> > My BSD box says:
> > "PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled by GCC gcc.exe (GCC)
> > 3.4.2 (mingw-special)"
> >
> > Seems to be the same
>
> Your bsd box appears to be connection to a postgresql on
> windows machine.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
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