On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Attached is a small patch to teach pg_config how to output a --version-num > > With Pg 10, parsing versions got more annoying. Especially with > "10beta1", "9.6beta2" etc into the mix. It makes no sense to force > tools and scripts to do this when we can just expose a sensible > pre-formatted one at no cost to us. > > Personally I'd like to backpatch this into supported back branches, > but just having it in pg 10 would be a help.
It's a pain in the butt because then you need to find or get passed the name of Makefile.global. Then you have to template it out into a file. Or parse the Makefile. Or create a wrapper program to emit it.
It's beyond me why we don't expose this at runtime for use in scripts and tools. (Then again, the same is true of reporting it in the startup message and we know how that's gone).
