As per the policy established in commit 6991e774e, invent macros that can be tested at compile time to detect presence of new libpq features. This should make calling code more readable and less error-prone than checking the libpq version would be (especially since we don't expose that at compile time; the server version is an unreliable substitute). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2042418.1724346970@sss.pgh.pa.us
PostgreSQL Database Management System
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings.
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