On 30 August 2016 at 00:37, Robert Haas wrote:
> Long story short, I kind of agree that it might have been better to
> expose server_version_num rather than server_version in the beginning,
> but I'm not sure that it really helps anybody now, especially given
> our decision to simplify the versio
On 30 Aug 2016 9:07 AM, "Dave Cramer" wrote:
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> On 29 August 2016 at 15:42, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> Kevin Grittner writes:
>> > Regarding Java, for anything above the driver itself the
>> > JDBC API says the DatabaseMetaData class must implement these
>> > methods:
>> > ...
>> > That *should* m
On 29 August 2016 at 15:42, Tom Lane wrote:
> Kevin Grittner writes:
> > Regarding Java, for anything above the driver itself the
> > JDBC API says the DatabaseMetaData class must implement these
> > methods:
> > ...
> > That *should* make it just a problem for the driver itself. That
> > seems
Kevin Grittner writes:
> Regarding Java, for anything above the driver itself the
> JDBC API says the DatabaseMetaData class must implement these
> methods:
> ...
> That *should* make it just a problem for the driver itself. That
> seems simple enough until you check what those methods have been
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> Note that these are all one-liners, and I bet the same is true in
> mostly other languages. Even in notoriously verbose languages like
> Java or Cobol or ADA it can't be very hard.
Regarding Java, for anything above the driver itself the
JD
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Craig Ringer writes:
> >> The same sort of problems apply to network clients, but network
> >> clients don't currently get that option because we only send
> >> server_version on the wire
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Craig Ringer writes:
>> The same sort of problems apply to network clients, but network
>> clients don't currently get that option because we only send
>> server_version on the wire in the startup packet. We don't send
>> server_version_num.
>
>>
Craig Ringer writes:
> The same sort of problems apply to network clients, but network
> clients don't currently get that option because we only send
> server_version on the wire in the startup packet. We don't send
> server_version_num.
> It'll be immediately useful to have this since clients ca
