Hey all, Could you call it as PQlibVersion() or even PQversion() instead of PQlibpqVersion() ?
2010/10/5 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> > Peter Geoghegan <peter.geoghega...@gmail.com> writes: > > On 5 October 2010 16:33, Greg Sabino Mullane <g...@turnstep.com> wrote: > >>> How does the driver figure it out? > >> > >> DBD::Pg parses pg_config --version, then passes the information > >> to the C programs for directive fiddling. I certainly hope > >> other drivers are doing the same, as libpq varies across > >> major versions a good deal. > > > I would imagine that most libpq wrapping drivers use libpq's > > PQserverVersion(), which returns an integer that looks like 90000. > > The real problem is that neither of these can be trusted to tell you the > *library* version. PQserverVersion() is something else altogether, > and I wouldn't want to assume that pg_config exactly matches the library > you're linked to --- if it's even present at all. > > We could add a PQlibpqVersion(), maybe, but it would be many years > before client code could rely on that being present. > > regards, tom lane > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- // Dmitriy.