Re: pgsql: Clean up libpq's pollution of application namespace by renaming - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql: Clean up libpq's pollution of application namespace by renaming
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In response to Re: pgsql: Clean up libpq's pollution of application  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2005-17-10 at 13:24 -0300, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Clean up libpq's pollution of application namespace by renaming the
>> exported routines of ip.c, md5.c, and fe-auth.c to begin with 'pg_'.
>> Also get rid of the vestigial fe_setauthsvc/fe_getauthsvc routines
>> altogether.

> Does this change require that we bump the libpq version number?

It shouldn't, because none of these routines are officially part of
the API.  However, perhaps we should anyhow, considering there's also
the PQinitSSL/PQregisterThreadLock business to deal with.

            regards, tom lane

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