I think we should go with Daniel's idea for all three parts.
I'm okay with that, although probably it should be an independent patch.
In the documentation, I do not think that both SERVER_VERSION_NAME and
_NUM (or whatever their chosen name) deserve two independent explanations
with heavy repeats just one after the other, and being treated differently
from VERSION_*.
I started with it that way, but it seemed pretty unreadable with the
parenthetical examples added. And I think we need the examples,
particularly the one pointing out that you might get something like "beta".
Yes for "beta" which is also in the v8 patch I sent. One shared doc with
different examples does not look too bad to me, and having things repeated
so closely do not look good.
Seeing it as is, it calls for having "SERVER_VERSION" as well, but I'm not
sure of the better way to get it. I tried with "SELECT VERSION() AS
SERVER_VERSION \gset" but varnames are lowerized.
The problem there is you can't get version() without an extra round trip
to the server --- and an extra logged query --- which people are going to
complain about.
Yep.
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