Re: 10.0
Jim Nasby <jim.nasby@bluetreble.com>
From: Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Craig
Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Josh berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-06-15T15:56:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 6/15/16 9:04 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: >> We could stand to be more explicit here. The docs for version() >> >> > indicated >> >> > the server_version_num should be used for "machine processing". On a somewhat related note, any objection to adding server_version_num to pg_config? It's common to need to know what version you're handling in a Makefile, and today that's pretty ugly (especially when something is stamped as beta, since it breaks assumptions about numeric). -- Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX Experts in Analytics, Data Architecture and PostgreSQL Data in Trouble? Get it in Treble! http://BlueTreble.com 855-TREBLE2 (855-873-2532) mobile: 512-569-9461