Re: Should we bump libpq major version for 8.3?

Stephen Frost wrote:
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> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> > As of today there are two new functions exported by libpq.so since
> > 8.2 (lo_truncate and PQconnectionUsedPassword). Currently,
> > libpq/Makefile sets the major.minor shlib version to 5.1 as compared
> > to 5.0 in PG 8.2. Should it be 6.0? I seem to recall people
> > chastizing us for not bumping the major version if there were any
> > ABI changes at all, forward-compatible or not.
>
> No, it should be 5.1 (we havn't released a 5.1 at all yet, have we?).
> Adding functions is a minor shlib bump and should *not* change the
> SONAME (which includes the major here, objdump -p libpq.so.5.0).

Agreed. src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES says only a minor bump is needed, and
I already did that for 8.3. We are OK.

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