Re: version dependent compilation

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:50:29AM +0000, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Apparently, there's currently no way to perform conditional compiling 
> dependent on the version of pgsql. Currently we're facing the problem 
> that ParseDateTime changed its parameters between 8.0.3 and 8.0.4, 
> breaking backward compatibility (for good reasons in this case).

Hmm.  People have reported using CATALOG_VERSION_NO for this purpose,
but evidently it's not enough in this case, because that symbol wasn't
changed between 8.0.3 and 8.0.4.  So there's a case for real version
symbols, apparently.

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