Re: [PATCH] Send numeric version to clients

On 30 Aug 2016 9:07 AM, "Dave Cramer" <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> wrote:
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> On 29 August 2016 at 15:42, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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>> Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> > Regarding Java, for anything above the driver itself the
>> > JDBC API says the DatabaseMetaData class must implement these
>> > methods:
>> > ...
>> > That *should* make it just a problem for the driver itself. That
>> > seems simple enough until you check what those methods have been
>> > returning so far.
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>> Seems like we just make getDatabaseMinorVersion() return zero for
>> any major >= 10. That might not have been the best thing to do in
>> a green field, but given the precedent ...
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>> regards, tom lane
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> seems to me that it should report 10 for the major and whatever comes
after the . for the minor ?

IMO it just needs to be consistent with the numeric version we report
elsewhere - PG_VERSION_NUM, server_version_num etc.

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> Dave Cramer
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> davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
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