Added support for providing a custom params dict
This has been a long outstanding feature request for tlarsen, luckily
it turned out to be very easy to implement with the dict.merge
utility method. To have custom _rights one should instead to the
required access checks before calling the view method.
"""
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)