You can use:

>>> from django.db import connection
>>> connection.pg_version
90507

On Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 6:15:29 AM UTC-4, HM wrote:
>
> When https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18332 lands (No generic way 
> to get database backend version) this will be trivial but I need a 
> solution for this now: How can I find out which version of postgres is 
> in use? 
>
> I need it thanks to JSONField. 9.6 has support for it but older 
> postgresqls don't, and I'd like to then use a third-party 
> json-in-TextField solution instead. 
>
> A model with a django.contrib.postgres.fields.JSONField cannot be 
> migrated on posgresqls older than 9.4. (We run 9.3 and I need this 
> project to run on >=9.3) You get 'django.db.utils.ProgrammingError: 
> type "jsonb" does not exist'. At that point it's a little late 
> swapping out the import. 
>
> -- 
> HM 
>

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