I wrote: > Huh? The variable will be set in any case. It should be correct for any > server version we might find in the wild --- so far as I can tell from the > commit history, every version supporting FE/BE protocol version 3 has sent > server_version at connection start. With a pre-7.4 server, it looks like > the variables would be set to "0.0.0" and "0" respectively.
Scratch that: experimentation says it works fine with older servers too. The oldest one I have in captivity reports SERVER_VERSION_NAME = '7.0.3' SERVER_VERSION_NUM = '70003' Looking more closely, I see that when using protocol version 2, libpq will issue a "select version()" command at connection start to get this info. 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