Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> ... I'm still not sure that there's any use case for the >> string versions ("9.6.4" etc).
> If somebody's doing comparisons, they probably want the numeric > version, but somebody might want to print the string version in an > error message e.g. \if <test involving VERSION_NUM> \echo this thing > doesn't work on :VERSION_NAME \quit \endif OK, but if human-friendly display is the use-case then it ought to duplicate what psql itself would print in, eg, the startup message about server version mismatch. The v4 patch does not, in particular it neglects PQparameterStatus(pset.db, "server_version"). This would result in printing, eg, "11.0" when the user would likely rather see "11devel". regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers