On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 09:14:16PM -0400, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> 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.
What's the status on applying this patch?
Cheers,
D
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