Re: pgsql-server/ /configure /configure.in rc/Make ...

Tom Lane wrote:
> momjian@svr1.postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> >     As part of the work for making relocatable installs, I have re-factored
> >     all the code that looks for other binaries.  I move FindExec into
> >     port/exec.c (and renamed it to find_my_binary()).  I also added
> >     find_other_binary that looks for another binary in the same directory as
> >     the calling program, and checks the version string.
>
> Version string?  What version string?  Binaries don't have any checkable
> version info that I know of ...

binary -V echos a version string, and our code already was checking
that:

    $ pg_dump -V
    pg_dump (PostgreSQL) 7.5devel
    $ postgres -V
    postgres (PostgreSQL) 7.5devel

Actually, initdb was checking, but pg_dumpall was not.

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