Re: Version-aware psql? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Version-aware psql?
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Msg-id 0aaa01c357f9$c0faf010$2800a8c0@mars
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In response to Version-aware psql?  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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> I'm wondering if maybe the Right Thing(TM) might be for all
> connections to return (optionally?) the version number, but that seems
> like a giant project with many backward-compatibility snags attached.

I think it would be for psql to check the connection version and then load a
shared library containing the implementation of all its functions for that
particular database version...

Chris



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