Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> writes:
>> I am thinking the easiest solution will be to re-add get_progname() to
>> 8.0.X and bump the major for 8.1.
> Seconded. Then we don't need another library version, and it is still
> not necessary to drag this get_progname accident forever.
We're going to stop dragging the accident now, not a year from now.
Putting get_progname back into libpq would require re-adding all of
path.c, which creates many more issues than just adjusting
SO_MAJOR_VERSION would do.
regards, tom lane
