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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2006-09-02 13:12:50 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2006-09-02 13:12:50 +0000
commit04912899e792094ed00766b99b6c604cadf9edf7 (patch)
tree519aa05b97d65b53e446f2a57442a9c10e36471e /doc/src
parentbb7be1ee10be6d8cd1bd3a37c132cad86c5d9f18 (diff)
Add new variable "server_version_num", which is almost the same as
"server_version" but uses the handy PG_VERSION_NUM which allows apps to do things like if ($version >= 80200) without having to parse apart the value of server_version themselves. Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/config.sgml15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index db78a51e6b0..4db9831a687 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.78 2006/08/29 11:37:47 petere Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.79 2006/09/02 13:12:50 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter Id="runtime-config">
<title>Server Configuration</title>
@@ -4226,6 +4226,19 @@ dynamic_library_path = 'C:\tools\postgresql;H:\my_project\lib;$libdir'
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry id="guc-server-version-num" xreflabel="server_version_num">
+ <term><varname>server_version_num</varname> (<type>integer</type>)</term>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary><varname>server_version_num</> configuration parameter</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Reports the version number of the server as an integer. It is determined
+ by the value of <literal>PG_VERSION_NUM</> when building the server.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
</variablelist>
</sect1>