From: Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>
To: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: dbi-dev@perl.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Patch for DBD::Pg pg_relcheck problem
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:54:07 +0000
Message-ID: <15862.3615.266952.454641@kelvin.csl.co.uk> (raw)
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Ian Barwick writes:
> 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) ?
Probably:
int PQversion(const PGconn *conn)
would be better, and easier to parse? For example the value returned
for 7.3.1 would be 7003001; for 7.4 7004000; for 101.10.2
101010002. This allows simple numerical tests...
Lee.
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