Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > Sure, CATALOG_VERSION isn't that useful, but it's the only thing in the > header files that gives any kind of indication what version you're > compiling against. PG_VERSION is a string, which diminishes its > usefulness considerably.
How so? All we care about is being able to (1) compare for equality, and (2) print out something useful in error messages. I claim that PG_VERSION does #1 equally well and #2 better. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster