Am Samstag, 29. April 2006 21:27 schrieb Martijn van Oosterhout:
> What it does is remove the restriction that any one program can only
> use (directly or indirectly) one version of libpq at any moment.
> Programs can use indirectly postgres via PAM or NSS or other such
> pluggable interfaces. Currently PAM and NSS must be using the same
> version of libpq as any program that might call them or everything
> blows up.
Symbol versioning only helps if a function's signature has changed, doesn't
it? Have we ever done that?
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/