Re: Libpq PGRES_COPY_BOTH - version compatibility

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 16:15, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 13:18, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Adding a #define to our headers that you can test for seems like the way to go.
>
>> That's kind of what I was going for ;)
>
> I don't see the point.  You're going to need a *run time* test on
> PQserverVersion to figure out what the server will return, no?

I need *both*.

> Also, if you really do need to figure out which PG headers you're
> compiling against, looking at catversion.h is the accepted way to do it.
> There's no need for yet another symbol.

This file is, AFAIK, not included with client installs? It's
definitely not present in the libpq-dev package on debian. It's a
backend development file, no?

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