app/django/db/backends/postgresql/version.py
author Pawel Solyga <Pawel.Solyga@gmail.com>
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:31:38 +0200
changeset 2373 05ab9393303d
parent 323 ff1a9aa48cfd
permissions -rw-r--r--
Add google-visualization-python project to Melange repository. This python module will be used with our Statistics module to leverage Google Visualization API and python as a data source.

"""
Extracts the version of the PostgreSQL server.
"""

import re

VERSION_RE = re.compile(r'PostgreSQL (\d+)\.(\d+)\.')

def get_version(cursor):
    """
    Returns a tuple representing the major and minor version number of the
    server. For example, (7, 4) or (8, 3).
    """
    cursor.execute("SELECT version()")
    version = cursor.fetchone()[0]
    major, minor = VERSION_RE.search(version).groups()
    return int(major), int(minor)