On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Hm. We're all agreed that there's a use case for exposing PG_VERSION_NUM
> to the makefiles, but I did not hear one for adding it to pg_config; and
> doing the former takes about two lines whereas adding a pg_config option
> entails quite a lot of overhead (documentation, translatable help text,
> yadda yadda). So I'm not in favor of doing the latter without a much
> more solid case than has been made.
Well, I have no other cases than ones of the type mentioned upthread,
and honestly I am fine as long as we do not apply maths to a version
string. So attached is a patch that adds VERSION_NUM in
Makefile.global.
Regards,
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Michael