Re: libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

Hi!

Tom Lane [2005-02-03 11:12 -0500]:
> 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.

The consensus seems to be to just bump the SONAME. The next one will
definitively be "4" then? I would like to fix this in my packages
before I announce them for public testing, but this issue is the only
blocker to it.

Will there be a new bugfix release soon?

Thanks for your work and have a nice day!

Martin

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