Re: PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

I have bumped minor versions for 7.3 and 7.4. If we decide to do
something different later, fine, but this way we will not forget to have
some update for 7.3.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > Greg Copeland wrote:
> > >> Is it possible to automate this as part of the build
> > >> process so that they get grabbed from some version information during
> > >> the build?
> >
> > > Version bump is one of the few things we do at the start of
> > > development.
> >
> > The real problem here is that major version bump (signifying an
> > incompatible API change) is something that must NOT be done in an
> > automated, mindless-checklist way. We should have executed the bump
> > when we agreed to change PQnotifies' API incompatibly. We screwed up
> > on that. I think it's correct to fix the error for 7.3.1 --- but we
> > cannot improve on the situation by making some procedural change to
> > "always do X at point Y in the release cycle". Sometimes there's
> > no substitute for actual thinking :-(
>
> Oh, a major bump. I thought we did major bumps only in cases where a
> recompile will _not_ fix the problem, like changing a parameter value to
> a function or removing a function or something like that.
>
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