| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Jeroen T(dot) Vermeulen" <jtv(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com>, Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Subject: | Re: PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken? |
| Date: | 2002-12-14 04:50:52 |
| Message-ID: | 19908.1039841452@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
>> Perhaps 7.3.1 could include a true, 7.2-style libpq.so.2.2 to overwrite
>> any 7.3-style version that the original 7.3 may have installed under that
>> name?
> That's an interesting idea, but then 7.3 binaries would link to
> libpq.so.2.2, which is bad.
There are a number of problems with that, but the biggie is that the old
binary API is inherently dependent on NAMEDATALEN. We can *not* ship a
library that is both 100% backwards compatible and 100% compatible to
a standard-issue 7.3 server.
regards, tom lane
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