Re: Shared library versions

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > On Wed, 9 May 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >
> > > I'm talking about the minor number. The only thing that effects is
> > > that executables would pick up the new version if they have the old
> > > one in the path as well, no potential problems.
> >
> > Okay, but, what does that buy you? One overwrites the old library, the
> > other creates one that will over-ride the old library ... either way, you
> > are using the new library, no?
>
> What happens when some libpq is in one directory, and another in a
> different directory, both in ld.so.conf. Does it pick higher version of
> all available versions?

AFAIK it finds the first in order of directories listed in ld.so.conf.

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