Re: querying the version of libpq

From: Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Massa, Harald Armin" <chef(at)ghum(dot)de>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: querying the version of libpq
Date: 2010-10-14 12:00:41
Message-ID: AANLkTi=6NXMtckxXKeqmFegN7cZ-CcBtp_qDPxiyFyA-@mail.gmail.com
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Hey Massa,

Again, I suggest PQlibVersion() or PQversion() instead of PQlibpqVersion().

Why this "pq" redundancy in name? Waste of bytes.

2010/10/14 Massa, Harald Armin <chef(at)ghum(dot)de>

> And the dynamic linker will take any version of libpq.so that has the same
>> major number, meaning that you
>> cannot assume that it's not 8.4 just because you built against 9.0.
>>
>> [...]
>
>> Not to mention when you're on windows (and I dunno if any other
>> platforms are like *that*), where they're all libpq.dll and we'll
>> happily take *any* other libpq.dll (even an older one, but that will give
>> you an error if you're actually using any functions not present in it).
>>
>> So there are quite many arguments for adding a
>
> PQlibpqVersion()
>
> to libpq, yeah? Do you think you will do it, Magnus?
>
> [updates: the other "got bitten by the BYTEA-encoding-change"-thread is
> connected to this....]
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Harald
>
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// Dmitriy.

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