Re: libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0
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Msg-id 29079.1107360474@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0  (Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Martin Pitt has detected that the libpq API has changed incompatibly
> between 7.4 and 8.0.  This has the effect, for example, that 7.4's psql
> cannot run with 8.0's libpq.

[ shrug... ]  I don't think we've ever guaranteed that anyway.  I will
resist putting get_progname back into libpq, because it should never
have been there, at least not with that name: it's an undocumented
infringement on application namespace.
        regards, tom lane


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