Fetch P4 file version in SQL File

Question

I have some PL/SQL stored packages which get deployed by different teams on different servers. Its always a hassle if i have to check if the same version is deployed across all the servers.

What I want to do is to create a function in the given package that calling it will print the current version of the file.

Now the version of the file that I want to get printed is the version which is in P4. So What i am looking at that once I submit the file into perforce, perforce automatically update a certain variable with-in the file which corresponds to the current submitted version and in plsql, I can just print it.

How can I do this ?

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Thanks to @cristobalito for referring to P4 KB

I made a function in my package, something like this

FUNCTION get_script_version RETURN VARCHAR2
IS
    changed_date    VARCHAR2(60)    :=  '$DateTime$';
    change_list     VARCHAR2(30)    :=  '$Change$';
    revision        VARCHAR2(30)    :=  '$Revision$';
    changed_by      VARCHAR2(50)    :=  '$Author$';
BEGIN
    RETURN changed_date||'  '||change_list||'  '||revision||'  '||changed_by;
END get_script_version;

Then, in P4 client

1: right click on your desired files and then right click to select "change filetype"

2: Then in new window, select on k+ attributes

And submit the file. P4 will replace the $$ with respective values.

Answer 1

Actually, done some further googling after comment above and apparently perforce does support keyword substitution as described here. That may get you some way towards what you're trying to achieve.