Re: [PATCHES] New variable server_version_num

On 7/30/06, David Fetter  wrote:
> Failure to parse means the transaction bails out, which is just what I
> want in my case, as it disallows people attempting to run the
> programs--they're for DBI-Link--on too early a version of PostgreSQL.
> As there are some subtleties to the implementation, I need something
> that quickly returns boolean or fails entirely when it detects same.

From an application development standpoint, it would be nice to have a
strictly numeric version returning function for checking server
compatibility.

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