momjian@postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> Add new variable "server_version_num", which is almost the same as
> "server_version" but uses the handy PG_VERSION_NUM which allows apps to
> do things like if ($version >= 80200) without having to parse apart the
> value of server_version themselves.
I thought this was rejected as being utterly useless. Or is this commit
somehow going to retroactively affect existing old servers?
A non-useless version of this would be client-side code ... except it's
already there, in libpq at least.
Please revert.
regards, tom lane