Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes: > > Add new variable "server_version_num", which is almost the same as > > "server_version" but uses the handy PG_VERSION_NUM which allows apps to > > do things like if ($version >= 80200) without having to parse apart the > > value of server_version themselves. > > I thought this was rejected as being utterly useless. Or is this commit > somehow going to retroactively affect existing old servers?
You were the only one to object, as I remember. Others like it. The fact it was not in older releases was not a huge problem to them. We could actually backpatch it if we wanted. > A non-useless version of this would be client-side code ... except it's > already there, in libpq at least. There is no sense in having all clients reinvent this. I am not applying patches where everyone is going to agree to the feature. It only requires a majority. If you want a vote, we can do that. Same for the plpython patch. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
