> I'm wondering if maybe the Right Thing(TM) might be for all > connections to return (optionally?) the version number, but that seems > like a giant project with many backward-compatibility snags attached.
I think it would be for psql to check the connection version and then load a shared library containing the implementation of all its functions for that particular database version... Chris ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org