Re: libpq.so - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: libpq.so
Date
Msg-id 20814.1087572654@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to libpq.so  (<ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>)
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<ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> writes:
> The most verbose solution I've seen, is to "copy" libpq.so.3 to
> libpq.so.2 so that ogo will find a libpq.so library.  I would
> guess a symbolic link would actually be better, but the question I
> have is:
>  Do all of the functions common to libpq.so in version 2 and 3
>  have the same parameters?

There are some incompatibilities (which is why we changed the major
version number).  As best I recall at the moment, the incompatibilities
would only affect applications that use LISTEN/NOTIFY, which not many
do.  So the above would probably work, but it's not certain.

            regards, tom lane

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