Re: Determing Postgres version

Well, I thought of that.

Here's what I get:
ERROR: function version() does not exist

Any other ideas, short of actually asking the ISP help desk?

Gary

chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au writes:
>Try:
>
>select version();
>
>Chirs
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pgsql-php-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> [mailto:pgsql-php-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Gary Hoffman
>> Sent: Monday, 17 December 2001 2:24 PM
>> To: pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
>> Subject: [PHP] Determing Postgres version
>>
>>
>> For an off-campus project, my web hosting ISP has the PostgreSQL
>> postmaster running on a host separate from where my web pages are
>hosted.
>> My queries work OK, but I can't get LIMIT to work. I suspect he hasn't
>> upgraded to version 7 yet. How can I query for a version? I can't use
>> pg_config --version because it's not on my local host and anyway it
>> wouldn't find the postmaster on this host.
>>
>> Can I use a SQL query to determine the version of the postmaster?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Gary

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