| From: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Remove pqsignal() from libpq's official exports list. |
| Date: | 2019-10-10 03:56:35 |
| Message-ID: | 20191010035635.GD1852@paquier.xyz |
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:37:34AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Yes, this is absolutely the right answer, we shouldn't be removing
> symbols without an SONAME bump. If we don't want to bump the SONAME,
> then don't remove the symbol. This is utterly basic proper library
> maintenance and it isn't appropriate to argue that it's about "well,
> your old apps shouldn't exist" because it's blatently our fault for not
> bumping the SONAME, no matter how old the apps are.
+1. If we were to bump the SONAME, more cleanup could be actually
done, and I got some pushback not long ago regarding some undocumented
APIs in libpq that we still ship for the exact same reasons:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7990.1565550764@sss.pgh.pa.us
--
Michael
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