Re: Should we bump libpq major version for 8.3? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Should we bump libpq major version for 8.3?
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Msg-id 200707180031.l6I0VLf03334@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Should we bump libpq major version for 8.3?  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Stephen Frost wrote:
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> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> > As of today there are two new functions exported by libpq.so since
> > 8.2 (lo_truncate and PQconnectionUsedPassword).  Currently,
> > libpq/Makefile sets the major.minor shlib version to 5.1 as compared
> > to 5.0 in PG 8.2.  Should it be 6.0?  I seem to recall people
> > chastizing us for not bumping the major version if there were any
> > ABI changes at all, forward-compatible or not.
> 
> No, it should be 5.1 (we havn't released a 5.1 at all yet, have we?).
> Adding functions is a minor shlib bump and should *not* change the
> SONAME (which includes the major here, objdump -p libpq.so.5.0).

Agreed.  src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES says only a minor bump is needed, and
I already did that for 8.3.  We are OK.

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