Re: - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Oliver Jowett
Subject Re:
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Msg-id 40B1FD04.9090306@opencloud.com
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In response to Re:  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
List pgsql-hackers
Magnus Hagander wrote:

> FWIW, I think reporting a differnt version is just a *terrible* idea.
> Any client side program (say, pgadmin for example) that tries to
> determine what version backend it's connected to in order to know if a
> feature exists or not will be confused, in many cases to the point of
> being unusable.

If the 'server_version' parameter emitted at startup and/or the results 
of 'SELECT version()' reports something less than 7.5 for a 7.5 server, 
the JDBC driver will certainly break.

-O


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