Re: Stamping of 8.4 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Stamping of 8.4
Date
Msg-id 200802132038.m1DKc6524458@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Stamping of 8.4  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom did most of the 8.4 stamping and I incremented the library minor
> > version numbers.  I have updated the library bump wording in
> > RELEASE_CHANGES:
> > 
> >     o  Bump minor library versions, major if appropriate (see below)
> 
> I admit I am surprised by the library bump.  We haven't done anything to
> the libraries yet, so why bump the versions?

It is standard practice because we always modify the library in some
way, and if we don't do the minor version libraries will not favor the
new version.

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