RE: [PATCHES] Patch for Win32 support

From: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "'Peter Eisentraut'" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: RE: [PATCHES] Patch for Win32 support
Date: 2000-01-19 08:42:53
Message-ID: 215896B6B5E1CF11BC5600805FFEA821026E11C3@sirius.edu.sollentuna.se
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> > Hi!
> >
> > Here is a patch to bring both libpq and psql to a state
> where it compiles on
> > win32 (native) again. A lot of things have changed, and I
> have not been able
> > to keep up with them all, so it has been broken for quite a while.
> > After this patch, at least it compiles. It also talks
> "basic talk" to the
> > server, but I have not yet tested all things. Sending
> queries, and using
> > e.g. \d or \dt works fine. The rest will have to be tested further.
> > It also bumps the version on libpq.dll to 7.0.
>
> Shouldn't the library version number be 2.1?

It probably should. But the previous one (the one that is out with 6.5.x) is
versioned 6.5. If we switched back to 2.1, then any sane installation
program would refuse to install that DLL if the 6.5 DLL was already
installed. Which would be bad.

//Magnus

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