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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