Re: [HACKERS] [INTERFACES] libpgtcl - backend version information patch - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] [INTERFACES] libpgtcl - backend version information patch
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Msg-id 23437.1021752719@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Responses Re: [HACKERS] [INTERFACES] libpgtcl - backend version information  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
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"Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:
> This feature could be added to PgAccess but I felt it was general
> enough to be placed in the interface library. I think someone else
> suggested such a place a couple of weeks ago also. If there is a
> concensus that this should be done in the application layer I'll
> happily drop this patch completely.

I guess I don't quite see the point of doing this in libpgtcl,
as opposed to doing a "select version()" at the application level.
It would take only a line or two of Tcl code to do that and parse the
result of version(), so why write many lines of C to accomplish the
same thing?

            regards, tom lane

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