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

   Paul M. Aoki <aoki@acm.org> — 2000-11-16T19:32:55Z

   Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
   > > it would be nice if the metadata routines were actually tied to something retu
   rned from the backend.
   >
   > You can do a 'SELECT version()' to get a version string from the
   > backend.
   
   thanks for the workaround.
   
   the original point still stands, of course ;-)
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2. Re: no meaningful way to determine fe or be version?

   Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> — 2000-11-16T19:41:44Z

   Yes, should we return the client or server version from the interface? 
   If we return the server version, how does someone query the client version?
   
   > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
   > > > it would be nice if the metadata routines were actually tied to something retu
   > rned from the backend.
   > >
   > > You can do a 'SELECT version()' to get a version string from the
   > > backend.
   > 
   > thanks for the workaround.
   > 
   > the original point still stands, of course ;-)
   > --
   >  Paul M. Aoki / Xerox Palo Alto Research Center / 3333 Coyote Hill Road
   >  aoki@acm.org / Computer Science Laboratory     / Palo Alto, CA 94304-1314
   > 
   
   
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