Re: Determine PG version used for initdb

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:05:22AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > That tells the server version running, but does it tell the initdb
> > binary version used to init the cluster?
>
> Normally there's not any difference between dot-release initdb's.
> In this case there is; read the 8.0.3 release notes:
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html#RELEASE-8-0-3
> You could determine which was used by looking at the declared arguments
> of the conversion functions.

Hrm. Is there no definative way to determine what version of initdb was
used on a cluster? ISTM that would be a useful feature to have.
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