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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Variable substitution in psql backtick expansion
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Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2017-09-04 18:56 GMT+02:00 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Just had another idea: maybe make the new variable names
>> SERVER_VERSION_S
>> SERVER_VERSION_N
>> VERSION_S
>> VERSION_N

> SERVER_VERSION_STR looks better than this.

I dunno, I'm not very pleased with the "STR" idea because the verbose
version string is also a string.  Documenting "S" as meaning "short"
would dodge that objection.

			regards, tom lane


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