[Info-ingres] version.rel versus version.dat

[Chris Clark]

On Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 1:00:37 AM UTC-7, Roy Hann wrote:
> The answer to my question may be that it's a history just of
> patches.

I can confirm that version.dat is maintained by the patch installer (iiinstaller) for Unix. And does exactly what you surmised :-)

version.rel always exists after install, whether it is a patched installation or not.