PostgreSQL: Which version of PostgreSQL am I running?

Question

I\'m in a corporate environment (running Debian Linux) and didn\'t install it myself. I access the databases using Navicat or phpPgAdmin (if that helps). I also don\'t have

Answer 1

Don’t know how reliable this is, but you can get two tokens of version fully automatically:

psql --version 2>&1 | tail -1 | awk '{print $3}' | sed 's/\./ /g' | awk '{print $1 "." $2}'

So you can build paths to binaries:

/usr/lib/postgresql/9.2/bin/postgres

Just replace 9.2 with this command.