On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >>> We could do that, I guess. However, if an application passes this in to >>> an old version of libpq, there is no way to know that it didn't know >>> about it. > >> Well, you could create PQinitSSLExtended, but, as you say, the use >> case is pretty narrow... > >> It would help if there were a PQgetLibraryVersion() function. > > Help how? There is nothing an app can do to work around the problem > AFAICS. Or if there were, we should just document it and not change > the code --- the use case for this is evidently too narrow to justify > complicating libpq's API even more.
It would let you assert that you were running against a version of libpq that has the functionality that you are attempting to use, thus eliminating the risk of silent failure. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
