Re: pgsql: Clean up libpq's pollution of application namespace by renaming

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Clean up libpq's pollution of application namespace by renaming
Date: 2005-10-17 16:55:31
Message-ID: 9713.1129568131@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, 2005-17-10 at 13:24 -0300, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Clean up libpq's pollution of application namespace by renaming the
>> exported routines of ip.c, md5.c, and fe-auth.c to begin with 'pg_'.
>> Also get rid of the vestigial fe_setauthsvc/fe_getauthsvc routines
>> altogether.

> Does this change require that we bump the libpq version number?

It shouldn't, because none of these routines are officially part of
the API. However, perhaps we should anyhow, considering there's also
the PQinitSSL/PQregisterThreadLock business to deal with.

regards, tom lane

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