Re: v7.3.1 tar ready ... please check it ...

Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian writes:
> > >
> > > > A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.3. However, it
> > > > should be noted that the main PostgreSQL interface library, libpq, has
> > > > a new major version number for this release, which may require
> > > > recompilation of client code in certain cases.
> > >
> > > s/certain/all/
> >
> > I was unclear on that. If they install right over their existing
> > pgsql/lib directory, the old libpq will still be there, so a recompile
> > will not be required.
> >
>
> It's not always safe to install over existing previous installation.

Uh, that's what we recommend right now. How is it wrong?

> I think special mention about recompiling DBD::Pg would be important

Uh, we don't distribute DBD:Pg.

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