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To: Thom Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Foreign server version and type
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:36:36 +0300
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On 15.08.2011 19:58, Thom Brown wrote:
> I'm looking at the CREATE SERVER page on the documentation (
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createserver.html) and noticed
> that there's a server_version parameter which can be provided with the
> keyword VERSION and server_type specified after TYPE.
>
> However, there's zero information about what these are used for, whether
> they have any bearing on anything or why you'd want to use them. Are these
> parameters used for anything, or are they purely for future functionality?
> Whatever the case, could some kind of elaboration be added to justify the
> existence of these options? They have been in the docs since the CREATE
> SERVER syntax was introduced in 8.4.
It's in the SQL spec. It isn't used anything by PostgreSQL itself, but a
wrapper could look at it. It would probably be good to say that
explicitly in the docs.
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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