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

You can do a 'SELECT version()' to get a version string from the
backend.

> Paul M. Aoki (aoki@acm.org) reports a bug with a severity of 3
> The lower the number the more severe it is.
> 
> Short Description
> no meaningful way to determine fe or be version?
> 
> Long Description
> both the odbc and jdbc drivers seem to hardcode the database version, e.g., org/postgresql/jdbc2/DatabaseMetaData.java always returns "6.5.2" when you call getDatabaseProductVersion().
> 
> it would be nice if the metadata routines were actually tied to something returned from the backend.
> 
> Sample Code
> 
> 
> No file was uploaded with this report
> 
> 


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