Add psql variables showing server version and psql version.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:51:36 +0000 (10:51 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:51:36 +0000 (10:51 -0400)
commit9ae9d8c1549c384dbdb8363e1d932b7311d25c56
tree70c1db95a90a40a3e7e847675c61fd6b7a4bcb34
parent3955c8c4eda2fd8cb7616285c55d98861382bb3a
Add psql variables showing server version and psql version.

We already had a psql variable VERSION that shows the verbose form of
psql's own version.  Add VERSION_NAME to show the short form (e.g.,
"11devel") and VERSION_NUM to show the numeric form (e.g., 110000).
Also add SERVER_VERSION_NAME and SERVER_VERSION_NUM to show the short and
numeric forms of the server's version.  (We'd probably add SERVER_VERSION
with the verbose string if it were readily available; but adding another
network round trip to get it seems too expensive.)

The numeric forms, in particular, are expected to be useful for scripting
purposes, now that psql can do conditional tests.

Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Pavel Stehule

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.20.1704020917220.4632@lancre
doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
src/bin/psql/command.c
src/bin/psql/help.c
src/bin/psql/startup.c