On 17/01/2011 16:08, Harald Armin Massa wrote:
>
> Honestly I don't know if it would
>
> worth the hassle of adding conditional runtime import: probably not
> for the current set of conditional features, they are just a few.
>
> I also doubt it would be worth the hassle.
>
> I think it would be very nice to expose the libpq-version (and quality
> of this information as in "asked at compile time" or "asked right now,
> because it is 9.1 or newer and we can do it") to the Python application:
> so the application programmer would be able to issue workarounds like
> the "bytea-encoding to escape".
Exposing the compile version (and in the future the runtime one) would
be extremely useful for client code, IMHO.
federico
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