| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Martin Pitt <mpitt(at)debian(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0 |
| Date: | 2005-02-02 17:01:50 |
| Message-ID: | 29655.1107363710@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Martin Pitt <mpitt(at)debian(dot)org> writes:
> What would you propose as a solution?
Do nothing. The problem you are raising isn't very serious since
RPM-style installations don't support concurrent installation of
multiple PG versions anyway. That being the case, it doesn't really
matter whether 8.0 psql can use a 7.4 library or vice versa.
To do otherwise would essentially amount to deciding that get_progname
is part of the exported API of libpq forevermore. That's not something
I'm willing to buy into. It was a mistake that it was done that way in
7.4, and I want to rectify that mistake before it gets any more
entrenched.
regards, tom lane
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