Re: [INTERFACES] Re: no meaningful way to determine fe or be version?

From: Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>
To: Anders Bengtsson <anders(at)lecando(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: no meaningful way to determine fe or be version?
Date: 2000-11-20 19:54:50
Message-ID: 3A19818A.B364290F@selectacast.net
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Try submitting it to the psgsl-patches list.

Anders Bengtsson wrote:
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > sorry, yes. the client-side interfaces (DatabaseMetaData.getDriver*)
> > > are actually fine - they return a major/minor version that have been
> > > getting manually updated (they're much more visible, being in
> > > org/postgresql/Driver.java). the server-side interfaces
> > > (DatabaseMetaData.getDatabase{Name,Version}) are the ones that aren't
> > > tied to the server, return hardcoded strings and haven't been getting
> > > updated regularly.
> >
> > Oh, really. I didn't know there was that distinction. Sounds like they
> > should be callling SELECT version(). Comments, Java folks?
>
> I posted a patch for the JDBC driver to pgsql-interfaces to do just that
> some time ago. Don't know what happened to it, though ..
>
> /Anders
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