Re: Question and suggestion about application binary compatibility policy - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tsunakawa, Takayuki
Subject Re: Question and suggestion about application binary compatibility policy
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Msg-id 0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F598E65@G01JPEXMBYT05
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In response to Re: Question and suggestion about application binary compatibility policy  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Question and suggestion about application binary compatibility policy  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:bruce@momjian.us]
> We have this text in src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES:
> ...
> This is saying running against a mismatched minor version should be fine
> for a binary.

Thanks for a good rationale.


> I know this thread is old but it bounced around a lot of ideas.  I think
> there are some open questions:
> 
> *  Will a new application link against an older minor-version libpq?
> *  Will an old application link against a newer minor-version libpq?

The former does not always hold true, if the application uses a new libpq function which is not in an old
miner-version. But I think the backward-compatibility is enough.
 


Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa





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