On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
> Re: Robert Haas
> > So you support calling it libpq.so.5 forever, no matter how much we change?
>
> I would say SONAME/ABI/API breakages are not a tool to promote better
> SSL settings. If we want to move to sslmode=verify-full by default, we
> should just do that. I don't see why adding extra ABI/API pain would
> make that transition any better for users.
>
> We can move to libpq6 if there are technical reasons, but the general
> pain will be long-lasting until the whole world has caught up. (Debian
> etc can switch pretty easily, but there's a gazillion of third-party
> things.)
OK, good to know. I somehow can't get over how crazy it seems to
hadcode the version to 5 forever, but, eh, [ old man yells at cloud
emoji here ].
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Robert Haas
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