Re: Variable substitution in psql backtick expansion

Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>

From: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-04-02T12:53:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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> Can be SERVER_VERSION_NUM taken from connection info?

Here is a version with that, quite easy as well as the information was 
already there for other checks.

I have not updated "help.c" because the initial VERSION was not presented 
there in the first place.

-- 
Fabien.

Commits

  1. Add psql variables showing server version and psql version.

  2. Reformat psql's --help=variables output.

  3. Remove reinvention of stringify macro.

  4. Allow psql variable substitution to occur in backtick command strings.