Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com> writes: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:31:05PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> I still think that this is optimizing the wrong thing. We care about >> the clarity of the message the user sees, not about how short or clean >> the Perl code is.
> There's no need to try to parse the perl -v output, which is intended > for humans and may change in future. Using > perl -e 'print $]' will give you the version number in floating point format for all versions of perl. $ /usr/local/bin/perl4 -e 'print $]' $RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 4.0.1.8 $$Date: 1993/02/05 19:39:30 $ Patch level: 36 I will refrain from further comment. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs