From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@acm.org>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, PostgreSQL-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: no meaningful way to determine fe or be version?
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:58:14 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200011162058.PAA29730@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200011162052.eAGKqih26908@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Yes, should we return the client or server version from the interface?
> > If we return the server version, how does someone query the client version?
>
> sorry, yes. the client-side interfaces (DatabaseMetaData.getDriver*)
> are actually fine - they return a major/minor version that have been
> getting manually updated (they're much more visible, being in
> org/postgresql/Driver.java). the server-side interfaces
> (DatabaseMetaData.getDatabase{Name,Version}) are the ones that aren't
> tied to the server, return hardcoded strings and haven't been getting
> updated regularly.
Oh, really. I didn't know there was that distinction. Sounds like they
should be callling SELECT version(). Comments, Java folks?
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