Re: Getting to 8.3 beta1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD
Subject Re: Getting to 8.3 beta1
Date
Msg-id E1539E0ED7043848906A8FF995BDA57902685EE7@m0143.s-mxs.net
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In response to Re: Getting to 8.3 beta1  (Darcy Buskermolen <darcyb@commandprompt.com>)
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> > * Do we bump the .so major version number for libpq?  I think we
should
> > because there are two new exported functions since 8.2, and on at
least
> > some platforms there's nothing else than major number to
disambiguate
> > whether a client needs these or not.  Comments?

-1. You don't bump major if the old api can be used 1:1 with the new
lib.
New functions is not a reason for a major bump.
The major version business is to protect you from ruining currently
running
(old) programs, not from using a too old lib with newly compiled
programs.

Andreas


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