Re: querying the version of libpq

Hey Massa,

Again, I suggest PQlibVersion() or PQversion() instead of PQlibpqVersion().

Why this "pq" redundancy in name? Waste of bytes.

2010/10/14 Massa, Harald Armin <chef@ghum.de>

> And the dynamic linker will take any version of libpq.so that has the same
>> major number, meaning that you
>>  cannot assume that it's not 8.4 just because you built against 9.0.
>>
>> [...]
>
>> Not to mention when you're on windows (and I dunno if any other
>> platforms are like *that*), where they're all  libpq.dll and we'll
>> happily take *any* other libpq.dll (even an older one, but that will give
>> you an error if you're actually using any functions not present in it).
>>
>> So there are quite many arguments for  adding a
>
>  PQlibpqVersion()
>
> to libpq, yeah? Do you think you will do it, Magnus?
>
> [updates: the other "got bitten by the BYTEA-encoding-change"-thread is
> connected to this....]
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Harald
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