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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Tilo Schwarz <mail@tilo-schwarz.de>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Relation "pg_relcheck"
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:53:30 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200303061953.h26JrU624270@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6288.1046293754@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Tom Lane wrote:
> Tilo Schwarz <mail@tilo-schwarz.de> writes:
> > Because this sort of questions appears quite often, I was wondering, if the 
> > start up message of psql could be changed from 
> >   Welcome to psql 7.4devel, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
> > to something like
> >   Welcome to psql 7.4devel, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
> >   Connected to PostgreSQL <put version here>.
> > to make it easier to catch these errors.
> 
> I'm not eager to add yet another hidden query cycle to the connection
> startup overhead, especially not one that does nothing for people who
> aren't making mistakes ;-).  What's been in the back of my mind is that
> when we redesign the FE/BE protocol (real soon now, I hope) we should
> extend the backend's first message to the frontend to include its
> version number, as well as any other useful info we can think of
> (database encoding and default client encoding come to mind).  This

Added to TODO:

>       o Report server version number, database encoding, client encoding

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