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

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