Re: no meaningful way to determine fe or be version? - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

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?

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > it would be nice if the metadata routines were actually tied to something retu
> rned from the backend.
> >
> > You can do a 'SELECT version()' to get a version string from the
> > backend.
>
> thanks for the workaround.
>
> the original point still stands, of course ;-)
> --
>  Paul M. Aoki / Xerox Palo Alto Research Center / 3333 Coyote Hill Road
>  aoki@acm.org / Computer Science Laboratory     / Palo Alto, CA 94304-1314
>


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