On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 03:16:37PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 9:16 AM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > > While updating some extensions, I noticed that pg_config --version > > produces output that's...maybe not quite as useful as it might be, at > > least to a machine, so I'd like to throw out some proposals to fix the > > situation. > > > > Add a --version-numeric option to pg_config > > > > or > > Replace the current --version option with its bare numeric version > > > > or > > Add another line of output to the current --version output, which > > would be the numeric version by itself > > > > What say? > > You may want to look at this thread that treats more or less the same topic: > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/cab7npqtadajpx8ik4v3uyjbo2kmo8rhzqjkdsladdrannrg...@mail.gmail.com > And this has resulted in commit a5d489cc: > commit: a5d489ccb7e613c7ca3be6141092b8c1d2c13fa7 > author: Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> > date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 17:24:36 -0400 > Make numeric form of PG version number readily available in Makefiles. > > I would imagine that the common position has not changed much since, > and as Makefile.global.in provides this data... Doing more work in > pg_config is not really necessary for extensions.
Thanks for the tip. :) Since at least two people ran across this independently, perhaps more documentation is in order. Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david(dot)fetter(at)gmail(dot)com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers