Re: libpq-oauth: a mid-beta naming check

From: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>, Antonin Houska <ah(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Wolfgang Walther <walther(at)technowledgy(dot)de>, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Subject: Re: libpq-oauth: a mid-beta naming check
Date: 2025-08-05 15:44:15
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Re: Jacob Champion
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 at 01:20, Jacob Champion
> > <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> > > So, as we approach Beta 3: can anyone think of a way that this plan will fail?
> >
> > It's not entirely clear what plan exactly you talk about here. Are you
> > saying you want to remove the -MAJOR suffix now for PG18? Or you want
> > to postpone doing that until PG19, when you would have designed a
> > stable API?
>
> That is a PG19 plan. I don't want to make any changes for 18 unless
> someone can see a fatal flaw; this is just my mid-beta check.

FTR, fine with me.

> > If your goal is to remove this
> > during-upgrade breakage after PG19, then I'd say that seems totally
> > fine for a new feature.
>
> That's the hope, yes.

Well, at the PG19 release time it will no longer be new. But the plan
sounds like a good one.

Christoph

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