On 1/17/18 10:14, Christoph Berg wrote:
> The difference is that when parsing version() (which is all my variant
> is changing), people already have to deal with extra stuff at the end
> (gcc version), while that would be new for "psql --version".
For me, having the package identifier in "psql -version" specifically
would actually be the biggest win in this, because that's where a lot of
issues arise (e.g., wrong libedit/readline library, different
compiled-in socket location).
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