Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > But if we add this feature and somebody wants to use it for > server_version_num, it's really pretty simple. In the startup packet, > you say _pq_.report=server_version_num. Then, you call > PQparameterStatus(conn, "server_version_num"). If you don't get a > value, you try calling PQparameterStatus(conn, "server_version") and > extracting the second word. If that still doesn't work then you give > up. That doesn't seem either useless or difficult to implement > correctly from here.
Yeah, but what's the point? If yuou have to maintain the server_version parsing code anyway, you're not saving any complexity with this. You're just creating a code backwater that you probably won't test adequately. regards, tom lane