Ian Barwick writes:
 > On Tuesday 10 December 2002 00:47, Tom Lane wrote:
 > > In the next protocol version update (hopefully 7.4) I would like to see
 > > the basic version string (eg, "7.3.1" or "7.4devel") delivered to the
 > > client automatically during connection startup and then available from a
 > > libpq inquiry function.  This would eliminate the need to call version()
 > > explicitly and to know that you must skip "PostgreSQL " in its output.
 > Something along the lines of 
 >   char *PQversion(const PGconn *conn) ?

Probably:

 int PQversion(const PGconn *conn)

would be better, and easier to parse? For example the value returned
for 7.3.1 would be 7003001; for 7.4 7004000; for 101.10.2
101010002. This allows simple numerical tests...

Lee.

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