| From: | Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: |
| Date: | 2004-05-24 13:47:48 |
| Message-ID: | 40B1FD04.9090306@opencloud.com |
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> FWIW, I think reporting a differnt version is just a *terrible* idea.
> Any client side program (say, pgadmin for example) that tries to
> determine what version backend it's connected to in order to know if a
> feature exists or not will be confused, in many cases to the point of
> being unusable.
If the 'server_version' parameter emitted at startup and/or the results
of 'SELECT version()' reports something less than 7.5 for a 7.5 server,
the JDBC driver will certainly break.
-O
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