Re: pgsql: Remove pqsignal() from libpq's official exports list. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: pgsql: Remove pqsignal() from libpq's official exports list.
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Msg-id 20191007065916.GH14532@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: pgsql: Remove pqsignal() from libpq's official exports list.  (Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>)
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On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 11:56:31AM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> This is starting to hurt in several places:
>
> 04 11:41 <magnush> mha@xindi:~$ psql
> 04 11:41 <magnush> /usr/lib/postgresql/9.2/bin/psql: symbol lookup error:
>                    /usr/lib/postgresql/9.2/bin/psql: undefined symbol: pqsignal
>
> pg_repack linked against libpq5 11 breaks with libpq5 12:

Ouch.  So that's commit f7ab802.  I agree that this is not cool, and
libpq so version is not likely going to be bumped up (if that happens
I have code I could wipe out).  Could we reconsider this decision?  It
seems to me that we should not silently break things.
--
Michael

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