Re: PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

From: Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com>, Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?
Date: 2002-12-13 09:15:15
Message-ID: 15865.42275.526137.986176@kelvin.csl.co.uk
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Making something binary incompatible IS an API change! In the case in
question an externally visible structure definition was changed -
clearly a change of API...

Bruce Momjian writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > So if a recompile fixes it, increment minor, else major.
> >
> > Wrong --- if you need a recompile then it's not binary-compatible, so
> > it should be a major version bump.
>
> But the previous poster said only API changes were reasons to bump the
> major, right?

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