Re: [HACKERS] Shared library version

Tom Lane wrote:
>"Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
>> There appear to have been changes in the shared library libpq.
>> Since the library has changed, it needs to have a new version number.
>
>You're right, we need to bump the number before release (and I hope we
>remember!). Past practice has not been to bump the number during
>development cycles, since we'd shortly have ridiculously high version
>numbers if we incremented them at every development change.

Yes, but it should be bumped the first time it changes; I agree that it
need not be increased during later development of the same release.

A patch would be superfluous. The necessary change is simply to
increment SO_MINOR_VERSION in src/interfaces/libpq/Makefile

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