I have spent some time reviewing the code. It applies well and PG master branch build fine with setting extraver or keep it undefined.
Thanks for reviewing that.
I have observed the following output applying the patch i.e.
It seems that extraver information only appears when version function is being used. If we use -V (--version) with pg utilities/binaries, it does not include additional provided information.
You are right. The first version of this patch updates PG_VERSION_STR but not PG_VERSION, which is the string used for all the binaries to report the version.
Can you please guide how can I perform similar functionality via configure script (that can be used on Unix like OS/MinGW) or It is intended for Window specific requirement ?. Thanks.
Sure, you can do the equivalent with plain configure like that:
And here is the output that I get with such options on OSX for example: $ psql -c 'select substring(version(), 1, 52)' substring ------------------------------------------------------ PostgreSQL 9.5devel-foo on x86_64-apple-darwin13.2.0 (1 row) $ initdb --version initdb (PostgreSQL) 9.5devel-foo
With the new patch attached, the following output is generated for an MSVC build: $ psql -c 'select version()' version -------------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL 9.5devel-foo, compiled by Visual C++ build 1600, 64-bit (1 row) $ initdb --version initdb (PostgreSQL) 9.5devel-foo
