| From: | "Massa, Harald Armin" <chef(at)ghum(dot)de> |
|---|---|
| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: querying the version of libpq |
| Date: | 2010-10-14 10:02:13 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTinAmypvGZNcg+cPhrfr4eYeGEQ9SajQ6J0c0e91@mail.gmail.com |
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>
> And the dynamic linker will take any version of libpq.so that has the same
> major number, meaning that you
> cannot assume that it's not 8.4 just because you built against 9.0.
>
> [...]
> Not to mention when you're on windows (and I dunno if any other
> platforms are like *that*), where they're all libpq.dll and we'll
> happily take *any* other libpq.dll (even an older one, but that will give
> you an error if you're actually using any functions not present in it).
>
> So there are quite many arguments for adding a
PQlibpqVersion()
to libpq, yeah? Do you think you will do it, Magnus?
[updates: the other "got bitten by the BYTEA-encoding-change"-thread is
connected to this....]
Best wishes,
Harald
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