| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: New version numbering practices |
| Date: | 2016-08-04 13:45:47 |
| Message-ID: | 31870.1470318347@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 4 August 2016 at 12:45, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>>> Well, this seems like a good time to make server_version_num GUC_REPORT
>>> as well...
>> To what end? Existing versions of libpq wouldn't know about it, and new
>> versions of libpq couldn't rely on it to get reported by older servers,
>> so it'd still be the path of least resistance to examine server_version.
> Because it's really silly that we don't,
Sorry, but I don't buy that. I think sending both server_version and
server_version_num would be silly, and we're certainly not going to stop
sending server_version.
regards, tom lane
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