From: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: dbi-dev@perl.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Patch for DBD::Pg pg_relcheck problem
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:38:03 +0100
Message-ID: <200212101638.03642.barwick@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20819.1039477650@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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(crossposting to hackers)
On Tuesday 10 December 2002 00:47, Tom Lane wrote:
> In the next protocol version update (hopefully 7.4) I would like to see
> the basic version string (eg, "7.3.1" or "7.4devel") delivered to the
> client automatically during connection startup and then available from a
> libpq inquiry function. This would eliminate the need to call version()
> explicitly and to know that you must skip "PostgreSQL " in its output.
Something along the lines of
char *PQversion(const PGconn *conn) ?
> However, it will only help for clients/libraries that are willing to
> deal exclusively with 7.4-or-newer backends, so it will take a few
> releases to become really useful.
Sounds good to me. Is it on the todo-list? (Couldn't see it there).
Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net
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