| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Martin Pitt <mpitt(at)debian(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0 |
| Date: | 2005-02-04 03:33:58 |
| Message-ID: | 200502040333.j143Xwu19947@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Martin Pitt <mpitt(at)debian(dot)org> writes:
> >> I am thinking the easiest solution will be to re-add get_progname() to
> >> 8.0.X and bump the major for 8.1.
>
> > Seconded. Then we don't need another library version, and it is still
> > not necessary to drag this get_progname accident forever.
>
> We're going to stop dragging the accident now, not a year from now.
>
> Putting get_progname back into libpq would require re-adding all of
> path.c, which creates many more issues than just adjusting
> SO_MAJOR_VERSION would do.
Why can't we just put a copy of get_progname into libpq, rather than
bring the entire file from libpgport?
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