Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> The original patch for controlling the export list on Linux included
> support for symbol versioning. Eventually a version of the export.list
> control was committed, but without the versioning (it was rejected for
> some reason, don't remember why).
My recollection is that it didn't work on older Linuxen.
A lot of this would come down to "are we willing to discontinue support
for platforms that don't have symbol versioning"? Without some legwork
to find out what that actually means, it's premature to try to make a
decision.
Anyway I think this is not 8.3 material; it's something to tackle during
a fresh development cycle.
regards, tom lane