Re: select version() with internal number version?

[Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

=?UTF-8?B?V8OoaSBDxY1uZ3J1w6w=?= <crvv.mail@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 3:01 PM Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Is there any way to get directly the PostgreSQL version number?

> SHOW server_version;
> SHOW server_version_num;

Also, if you're using libpq, see PQserverVersion() which
(a) avoids a round trip to the server, and (b) works further back
than server_version_num, though that issue is probably academic
to most folk at this point (server_version_num appeared in 8.2).

			regards, tom lane