Re: [INTERFACES] Re: no meaningful way to determine fe or be version?

Anders Bengtsson <anders@lecando.com>

From: Anders Bengtsson <anders@lecando.com>
To:
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, PostgreSQL-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-11-17T09:34:48Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > sorry, yes.  the client-side interfaces (DatabaseMetaData.getDriver*)
> > are actually fine - they return a major/minor version that have been
> > getting manually updated (they're much more visible, being in
> > org/postgresql/Driver.java).  the server-side interfaces
> > (DatabaseMetaData.getDatabase{Name,Version}) are the ones that aren't
> > tied to the server, return hardcoded strings and haven't been getting
> > updated regularly.
> 
> Oh, really.  I didn't know there was that distinction.  Sounds like they
> should be callling SELECT version().  Comments, Java folks?

I posted a patch for the JDBC driver to pgsql-interfaces to do just that
some time ago. Don't know what happened to it, though .. 

/Anders
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