Re: how solve diff of API counstruct_md_array between 8.1 and 8.2?

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 08:36:34PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Hello
>
> I use counstruct_md_array function in my Orafunc module. CVS version has
> diff def now. I am findig way for simple solution of maintaince source code
> for both version. I have PG_VERSION variable, but it's unusable. Is there
> way for contrib's autors differentiate PostgreSQL versions? I don't want to
> have two versions of source code.

For my stuff I've generally use CATALOG_VERSION_NO. It's not very easy,
but by looking through CVS you can find when the function was created
and in your code use:

#ifdef CATALOG_VERSION_NO > yyyymmddN
/* New stuff */
#else
/* Old stuff */
#endif

Hope this helps,
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