Re: Re: [BUGS] no meaningful way to determine fe or be version?

This concerns me.  Did we lose a patch here?  Can you send it again?

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > > sorry, yes.  the client-side interfaces (DatabaseMetaData.getDriver*)
> > > are actually fine - they return a major/minor version that have been
> > > getting manually updated (they're much more visible, being in
> > > org/postgresql/Driver.java).  the server-side interfaces
> > > (DatabaseMetaData.getDatabase{Name,Version}) are the ones that aren't
> > > tied to the server, return hardcoded strings and haven't been getting
> > > updated regularly.
> > 
> > Oh, really.  I didn't know there was that distinction.  Sounds like they
> > should be callling SELECT version().  Comments, Java folks?
> 
> I posted a patch for the JDBC driver to pgsql-interfaces to do just that
> some time ago. Don't know what happened to it, though .. 
> 
> /Anders
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