From: Joseph Shraibman <jks@selectacast.net>
To: Anders Bengtsson <anders@lecando.com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, PostgreSQL-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: no meaningful way to determine fe or be version?
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:54:50 -0500
Message-ID: <3A19818A.B364290F@selectacast.net> (raw)
References: <200011162058.PAA29730@candle.pha.pa.us>
<3A14FBB8.553777C3@lecando.com>
Try submitting it to the psgsl-patches list.
Anders Bengtsson wrote:
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
>
> I posted a patch for the JDBC driver to pgsql-interfaces to do just that
> some time ago. Don't know what happened to it, though ..
>
> /Anders
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