@@ -14617,7 +14617,7 @@ SELECT * FROM pg_ls_dir('.') WITH ORDINALITY AS t(ls,n);
1461714617 <row>
1461814618 <entry><literal><function>version()</function></literal></entry>
1461914619 <entry><type>text</type></entry>
14620- <entry><productname>PostgreSQL</> version information</entry>
14620+ <entry><productname>PostgreSQL</> version information. See also <xref linkend="guc-server-version-num"> for a machine-readable version. </entry>
1462114621 </row>
1462214622 </tbody>
1462314623 </tgroup>
@@ -14804,7 +14804,12 @@ SET search_path TO <replaceable>schema</> <optional>, <replaceable>schema</>, ..
1480414804
1480514805 <para>
1480614806 <function>version</function> returns a string describing the
14807- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> server's version.
14807+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> server's version. You can also
14808+ get this information from <xref linkend="guc-server-version"> or
14809+ for a machine-readable version, <xref linkend="guc-server-version-num">.
14810+ Software developers should use <literal>server_version_num</literal>
14811+ (available since 8.2) or <xref linkend="libpq-pqserverversion"> instead
14812+ of parsing the text version.
1480814813 </para>
1480914814
1481014815 <indexterm>