On 15 August 2012 16:47, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:36:36PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: >> On 15.08.2011 19:58, Thom Brown wrote: >> >I'm looking at the CREATE SERVER page on the documentation ( >> >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createserver.html) and noticed >> >that there's a server_version parameter which can be provided with the >> >keyword VERSION and server_type specified after TYPE. >> > >> >However, there's zero information about what these are used for, whether >> >they have any bearing on anything or why you'd want to use them. Are these >> >parameters used for anything, or are they purely for future functionality? >> > Whatever the case, could some kind of elaboration be added to justify the >> >existence of these options? They have been in the docs since the CREATE >> >SERVER syntax was introduced in 8.4. >> >> It's in the SQL spec. It isn't used anything by PostgreSQL itself, >> but a wrapper could look at it. It would probably be good to say >> that explicitly in the docs. > > I have applied the attached patch to document that these fields are only > potentially useful to foreign data wrappers.
Thanks Bruce, and a very belated thanks to Heikki for the explanation. -- Thom -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
