Re: Question and suggestion about application binary compatibility policy

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 06:42:57AM +0000, Tsunakawa, Takayuki wrote:
> > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:bruce(at)momjian(dot)us]
> > We have this text in src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES:
> > ...
> > This is saying running against a mismatched minor version should be fine
> > for a binary.
>
> Thanks for a good rationale.
>
>
> > I know this thread is old but it bounced around a lot of ideas. I think
> > there are some open questions:
> >
> > * Will a new application link against an older minor-version libpq?
> > * Will an old application link against a newer minor-version libpq?
>
> The former does not always hold true, if the application uses a new libpq function which is not in an old miner-version. But I think the backward-compatibility is enough.

Yes, I think that is correct, and I think that is covered in the file
posted:

Adding a new function should NOT force an increase in the major version
number.

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