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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml index 5f7bf6aa13e..0053d7d4101 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml @@ -14617,7 +14617,7 @@ SELECT * FROM pg_ls_dir('.') WITH ORDINALITY AS t(ls,n); <row> <entry><literal><function>version()</function></literal></entry> <entry><type>text</type></entry> - <entry><productname>PostgreSQL</> version information</entry> + <entry><productname>PostgreSQL</> version information. See also <xref linkend="guc-server-version-num"> for a machine-readable version.</entry> </row> </tbody> </tgroup> @@ -14804,7 +14804,12 @@ SET search_path TO <replaceable>schema</> <optional>, <replaceable>schema</>, .. <para> <function>version</function> returns a string describing the - <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> server's version. + <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> server's version. You can also + get this information from <xref linkend="guc-server-version"> or + for a machine-readable version, <xref linkend="guc-server-version-num">. + Software developers should use <literal>server_version_num</literal> + (available since 8.2) or <xref linkend="libpq-pqserverversion"> instead + of parsing the text version. </para> <indexterm> |