As I said, that's the return value of DatabaseMetaData.getDatabaseProductVersion() So apparently there *is* some parsing going on.
https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/blob/45c32bc6af2e140ff86dabd718344c74fc244394/pgjdbc/src/main/java/org/postgresql/jdbc/PgDatabaseMetaData.java#L150
https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/blob/45c32bc6af2e140ff86dabd718344c74fc244394/pgjdbc/src/main/java/org/postgresql/jdbc/PgConnection.java#L892
https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/blob/45c32bc6af2e140ff86dabd718344c74fc244394/pgjdbc/src/main/java/org/postgresql/core/v3/QueryExecutorImpl.java#L2637
https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/blob/45c32bc6af2e140ff86dabd718344c74fc244394/pgjdbc/src/main/java/org/postgresql/core/QueryExecutorBase.java#L229
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