| From: | "Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD" <Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)s-itsolutions(dot)at> |
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| To: | "Darcy Buskermolen" <darcyb(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Getting to 8.3 beta1 |
| Date: | 2007-09-28 07:49:22 |
| Message-ID: | E1539E0ED7043848906A8FF995BDA57902685EE7@m0143.s-mxs.net |
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> > * Do we bump the .so major version number for libpq? I think we
should
> > because there are two new exported functions since 8.2, and on at
least
> > some platforms there's nothing else than major number to
disambiguate
> > whether a client needs these or not. Comments?
-1. You don't bump major if the old api can be used 1:1 with the new
lib.
New functions is not a reason for a major bump.
The major version business is to protect you from ruining currently
running
(old) programs, not from using a too old lib with newly compiled
programs.
Andreas
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