Tom Lane wrote:
Ron Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
The trouble is that older servers will (by default) report
an error on that line and keep right on chugging.

Not necessarily.  Couldn't we put

  select * from (select substring(version() from '[0-9\.]+') as version) as a
  join (select generate_series(0,100000000000)) as b on(version<'8.4');
  set intervalstyle = something;

[ shrug... ]  It's still just one easily missable bleat.

Not here.

On my system it hangs forever on 8.3 or less and proceeds
harmlessly with 8.4.


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