On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:30:34PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > A release or two ago we added the version number to the psql welcome banner. > I noticed that quite a few people interpret that as the server version. > Somehow, the explicit display of the version numbers leads them to make > inferences that they would otherwise not bother about. Has anyone else > experienced that? I suppose there was a reason we added the version number > there, but I can't recall it. Could we make that more clear?
I think the rationale for not adding the server version is that you could tell people to do "select version()", so it would be unneeded verbosity, but certainly a lot of people doesn't even know they can do that. I think by far the easiest and clearest is to show both psql's version and the server version. Not the whole "version()" string, as that is too verbose -- just the version number. -- Alvaro Herrera -- Valdivia, Chile Architect, www.EnterpriseDB.com "Cuando miro a alguien, m?s me atrae c?mo cambia que qui?n es" (J. Binoche) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
