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* [PATCH] Advise devs to prefer server_version_num over parsing the version
@ 2015-02-06 05:52 Craig Ringer <[email protected]>
2015-04-29 00:31 ` Re: [PATCH] Advise devs to prefer server_version_num over parsing the version Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
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From: Craig Ringer @ 2015-02-06 05:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-docs
We've had server_version_num since 8.2.
Advise devs to prefer to use it instead of parsing version() or
server_version .
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[text/x-patch] 0001-Advise-devs-to-use-server_version_num.patch (1.6K, 3-0001-Advise-devs-to-use-server_version_num.patch)
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From db8b82c54e492312c3dc6d908179075338961adf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Craig Ringer <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 16:49:53 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Advise devs to use server_version_num
---
doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 6d4f331..0d76f9f 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -14449,7 +14449,7 @@ SELECT * FROM pg_ls_dir('.') WITH ORDINALITY AS t(ls,n);
<row>
<entry><literal><function>version()</function></literal></entry>
<entry><type>text</type></entry>
- <entry><productname>PostgreSQL</> version information</entry>
+ <entry><productname>PostgreSQL</> version information. See also <xref linkend="guc-server-version-num"> for a machine-readable version.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
@@ -14636,7 +14636,12 @@ SET search_path TO <replaceable>schema</> <optional>, <replaceable>schema</>, ..
<para>
<function>version</function> returns a string describing the
- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> server's version.
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> server's version. You can also
+ get this information from <xref linkend="guc-server-version"> or
+ for a machine-readable version, <xref linkend="guc-server-version-num">.
+ Software developers should use <literal>server_version_num</literal>
+ (available since 8.2) or <xref linkend="libpq-pqserverversion"> instead
+ of parsing the text version.
</para>
<indexterm>
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2.1.0
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* Re: [PATCH] Advise devs to prefer server_version_num over parsing the version
2015-02-06 05:52 [PATCH] Advise devs to prefer server_version_num over parsing the version Craig Ringer <[email protected]>
@ 2015-04-29 00:31 ` Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
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From: Bruce Momjian @ 2015-04-29 00:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Craig Ringer <[email protected]>; +Cc: pgsql-docs
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 04:52:54PM +1100, Craig Ringer wrote:
> We've had server_version_num since 8.2.
>
> Advise devs to prefer to use it instead of parsing version() or server_version
Patch applied.
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