Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm a little uneasy with puttting too much extra burden on the GUC > > mechanism, which is after all a system to configure the server, not to > > retrieve or communicate data. Even the "server_version" thing recently > > added doesn't make me happy. If an application wants to know that, it > > should send a query. > > Well, I think there is a very demonstrable reason to send the server > version as part of the startup protocol: "send a query" isn't a > trustworthy way for an application to find that out, given the rate at > which we are changing the server. For example, the fully correct way > to do that in 7.3 is "select pg_catalog.version()", but this syntax > doesn't work at all in pre-7.3 servers. And that doesn't even consider > the autocommit issue... > > If GUC didn't exist then a green-field design for sending the server > version during startup would doubtless have looked different. But we > have the mechanism, it performs excellently, and extending it in this > particular direction seems like a very reasonable design choice to me. > You know not how well you wrought ;-)
I don't see this implemented yet. I know Peter didn't like it, but I saw no other objections. Is it a TODO item? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
