New variable server_version_num - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject New variable server_version_num
Date
Msg-id 1154222056.5336.62.camel@localhost.localdomain
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Responses Re: New variable server_version_num  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: New variable server_version_num  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Re: New variable server_version_num  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Re: New variable server_version_num  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
List pgsql-patches
Today on IRC David Fetter and some others were discussing version
numbers and we realized that although libpq now provides the version of
Postgres as a number, this is still a wheel that is being reinvented by
apps many times over, as it is not available any other way. Hence, a
small patch to provide a new variable "server_version_num", which is
almost the same as "server_version" but uses the handy PG_VERSION_NUM
which allows apps to do things like if ($version >= 80200) without
having to parse apart the value of server_version themselves.

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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