From: | jwieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck) |
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To: | jhickey(at)impact1(dot)hpcc(dot)nectec(dot)or(dot)th (Justin Hickey) |
Cc: | maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] version functions (was NT port of PGSQL - success) |
Date: | 1998-10-09 10:05:48 |
Message-ID: | m0zRZQi-000EBPC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de |
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Jazzman wrote:
>
> Hello Bruce
>
> On Oct 8, 5:40pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I have removed the data/base/*/pg_version file because it was never
> > used. We had removed the 'version' functions long ago, but
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Does this mean that the following from the FAQ is wrong?
>
> 3.25) How do I tell what PostgreSQL version I am running?
>
> From psql, type select version();
>
> If so then this question should probably be changed to point users to the
> PG_VERSION file.
No, it is still correct. The version function is there and it
returns the compiled in string from version.h.
But take a look at version.c please. I think it should use
memcpy() or strncpy() instead of strcpy(). As it is now it
writes the null byte after the palloc'ed area.
Jan
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