Re: [Postgres-xc-developers] Detecting XC

[David E. W. <da...@ju...>]

On Feb 4, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Koichi Suzuki <koi...@gm...> wrote:

> Because XC didn't change libpq at all, I cannot find explicit way if
> you're connecting to PG or XC.   Even psql binary from PG works with
> XC.   I'd suggest to test if pgxc_class, pgxc_node and pgxc_nodegroup
> catalog is available, which are all XC specifyc.   To avoid name
> conflict (you can create table pgxc_class in PG), you can specify
> pgxc_class oid value, which will be release-specific though.

I don’t think I need to be *that* anal. If someone creates a table named pgxc_class in pg_catalog then the problem is theirs, IMHO.

Thanks,

David