Re: [PATCHES] New variable server_version_num

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:17:57PM -0400, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On 7/30/06, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> >Failure to parse means the transaction bails out, which is just
> >what I want in my case, as it disallows people attempting to run
> >the programs--they're for DBI-Link--on too early a version of
> >PostgreSQL.  As there are some subtleties to the implementation, I
> >need something that quickly returns boolean or fails entirely when
> >it detects same.
>
> From an application development standpoint, it would be nice to have
> a strictly numeric version returning function for checking server
> compatibility.

It sure would :)

Cheers,
D (whose boolean function is the output of a numeric comparison
between the required server version and the one at hand)
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David Fetter <david@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/
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