Re: [INTERFACES] Patch for DBD::Pg pg_relcheck problem

(no followup to dbi-dev@perl.org, getting a little OT there)

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 16:54, Lee Kindness wrote:
> Ian Barwick writes:
>  > Something along the lines of
>  >   char *PQversion(const PGconn *conn) ?
>
> Probably:
>
>  int PQversion(const PGconn *conn)
>
> would be better, and easier to parse? For example the value returned
> for 7.3.1 would be 7003001; for 7.4 7004000; for 101.10.2
> 101010002. This allows simple numerical tests...

Sounds logical - I was evidently thinking in Perl ;-).

For reference pg_dump currently parses the SELECT version() string
into an integer thus:

7.2         70200
7.2.1       70201
7.3devel    70300
7.3rc1      70300
7.3.1       70301
7.3.99      70399
7.399.399  110299
101.10.2  1011002

(and just for fun:
"11i Enterprise Edition with Bells and Whistles "
returns -1 ;-)

which works with minor release numbers of 99
and below.

Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net