Re: PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

From: "Jeroen T(dot) Vermeulen" <jtv(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
To: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com>, Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk>
Subject: Re: PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?
Date: 2002-12-14 01:33:06
Message-ID: 20021214013306.GA41554@xs4all.nl
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:06:47PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
> Yes. You will have libpq.so.3.0 in 7.3.1; and you have libpq.so.2.2
> from 7.3 (and also from 7.2.x, though in fact they are different). If
> you have installed 7.3.1 on top of 7.3, you will have libpq.so.3
> (symlinked to libpq.so.3.0) from 7.3.1, and libpq.so.2 (symlinked to
> libpq.so.2.2) from an earlier release.

Doesn't that mean that a user upgrading from 7.3 to 7.3.1 will have two
libraries, libpq.so.2.2 and libpq.so.3, that both adhere to the 7.3 ABI?

Perhaps 7.3.1 could include a true, 7.2-style libpq.so.2.2 to overwrite
any 7.3-style version that the original 7.3 may have installed under that
name?

Jeroen

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