Re: Shared library versions

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Shared library versions
Date: 2001-05-09 19:36:40
Message-ID: 200105091936.f49JaeC27895@candle.pha.pa.us
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What we should have done is ask which API's changed for 7.1. I know I
just changed the libpq++ API for 7.2.

> On Wed, 9 May 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > We did not bump the shared library versions before the 7.1 release.
> > > Maybe we should do this before 7.1.2 goes out.
> >
> > I thought I did that long ago for 7.1, or I should have anyway. I don't
> > see the commits either. Seems we can't do it in a minor release. Will
> > have to wait for 7.2, but since there really wasn't much API change in
> > 7.1, I think we are OK. Not sure if we should update them if there are
> > no API changes, or were there?
>
> IMHO, it should only be changed if there are incompatibilities between
> releases ... we modify the API, mainly ... anything more then that, and
> we're making ppl recompile to pull in libraries that only unlying code has
> changed, but not the API ...
>
>
>

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