| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] libpgtcl - backend version information patch |
| Date: | 2002-05-18 20:11:59 |
| Message-ID: | 23437.1021752719@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> This feature could be added to PgAccess but I felt it was general
> enough to be placed in the interface library. I think someone else
> suggested such a place a couple of weeks ago also. If there is a
> concensus that this should be done in the application layer I'll
> happily drop this patch completely.
I guess I don't quite see the point of doing this in libpgtcl,
as opposed to doing a "select version()" at the application level.
It would take only a line or two of Tcl code to do that and parse the
result of version(), so why write many lines of C to accomplish the
same thing?
regards, tom lane
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