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

From Michael Meskes
Subject Re: Question and suggestion about application binary compatibility policy
Date
Msg-id 1464788694.21529.27.camel@postgresql.org
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In response to Re: Question and suggestion about application binary compatibility policy  ("Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>)
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> However, the problem I pointed out is that when the new library is
> incompatible with the older one, say the major version of libpq.dll
> changes from 5 to 6, the application user and/or developer cannot
> notice the incompatibility immediately and easily.  On Unix/Linux,
> the application fails to start because the older library is not
> found.  On the other hand, the application will start on Windows and
> probably cause difficult trouble due to the incompatibility.

I don't think this is a very good situation, but I have no idea if this
can be solved. However, I'd prefer a technical solution over a
documentation one.

Michael
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