| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add new variable "server_version_num", which is almost the same |
| Date: | 2006-09-02 14:30:06 |
| Message-ID: | 2337.1157207406@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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momjian(at)postgresql(dot)org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> Add new variable "server_version_num", which is almost the same as
> "server_version" but uses the handy PG_VERSION_NUM which allows apps to
> do things like if ($version >= 80200) without having to parse apart the
> value of server_version themselves.
I thought this was rejected as being utterly useless. Or is this commit
somehow going to retroactively affect existing old servers?
A non-useless version of this would be client-side code ... except it's
already there, in libpq at least.
Please revert.
regards, tom lane
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