Re: [JDBC] Setting PG-version without recompiling

On 07/03/2014 10:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com> writes:
>> Hi. Â  I'm up for testing 9.4 but my JDBC-driver fails to connect due to PG's
>> minor-version string: "4beta1". Is it possible to set this somewhere without
>> recompiling PG?
>
> No, and even if you could, that would be the wrong approach.  The right
> approach is to fix the JDBC driver to not complain about such version
> strings.  I'm a bit surprised they haven't done so long since, considering
> how long PG beta versions have been tagged like that.  For that matter,
> they really ought not complain about strings like "9.5devel" or
> "9.5alpha2" either.

Yeah, that's  horrible. We should be using server_version_num .

It should be a quick enough fix, I'll take a look.

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