Re: Package version in PG_VERSION and version()

Re: Peter Eisentraut 2018-01-17 <aa78cb86-2b60-8348-0f36-f7e87241487c(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> On 1/17/18 10:14, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > The difference is that when parsing version() (which is all my variant
> > is changing), people already have to deal with extra stuff at the end
> > (gcc version), while that would be new for "psql --version".
>
> For me, having the package identifier in "psql -version" specifically
> would actually be the biggest win in this, because that's where a lot of
> issues arise (e.g., wrong libedit/readline library, different
> compiled-in socket location).

I enabled it for 10 and 11 now. With the arguably very long 11devel
snapshot build version number, it now looks like this:

$ psql --version
psql (PostgreSQL) 11devel (Debian 11~~devel~20180119.1047-1~329.git4e54dd2.pgdg+1)

$ /usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin/psql --version
psql (PostgreSQL) 10.1 (Debian 10.1-3.pgdg+1)

$ psql
psql (11devel (Debian 11~~devel~20180119.1047-1~329.git4e54dd2.pgdg+1), Server 10.1 (Debian 10.1-3.pgdg+1))

I'll report back if I see anything exploding.

The CF item is closed, thanks!

Christoph
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