Re: Nearing final release?

Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > It seems most logical to me to break the fundamental operations into:
> > 1. Prepare to create the compiled query plan
> > 2. Describe to bind the query input/output parameters
> > 3. Execute to produce a result set
> >
> > Or equivalent functionality. Then, you can bind all three parts into
> > one operation if you want to, or you can execute the tasks separately.
> >
> > The notion of a flag to tell whether to return a result set or not has
> > a
> > smell of kludge to me.
> >
> > On the other hand, if getting something working in a hurry is the main
> > purpose, then a flag might be the best way to go, and it could be more
> > carefully refactored later.
>
> FWIW, is libpq going to have its version bumped? There's some interest
> in having this done from the FreeBSD camp because it make detecting
> installed verions of libpq much easier (7.4 client libs working with an
> 8.0 server?). In FreeBSD the server is split from the client programs
> and its libs. I'm sure other packagers may wish to see this happen
> too. *shrug* -sc

We do a minor libpq version bump for every major PostgreSQL release.

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