Add walreceiver API to get remote server version

Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

Commit: 69039fda837d7a9c78e42b9dd5291d454e71f460
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: 2019-03-15T09:16:26Z
Releases: 12.0
Add walreceiver API to get remote server version

Add a separate walreceiver API function walrcv_server_version() to get
the version of the remote server, instead of doing it as part of
walrcv_identify_system().  This allows the server version to be
available even for uses that don't call IDENTIFY_SYSTEM, and it seems
cleaner anyway.

This is for an upcoming patch, not currently used.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20190115071359.GF1433@paquier.xyz

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