Re: Versioned vs unversioned jarfile names?

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> I have a request filed here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145744
> to supply version-less symlinks for the JDBC jarfiles that are
> distributed in the Postgres RPMs. Does anyone have a comment
> on whether this is a good or bad idea?
>

It's tough to say, not knowing what happens currently for the jar files or
the server. If an upgrade is going to change the server major version
without renaming say versioning binaries (psql-74 -> psql-80) then it
doesn't seem any more dangerous to swap out the jar files.

Do the jar files now get installed as postgresql-80-jdbc3 or
postgresql-80-309-jdbc3? If it's the second case that would be a real
pain to adjust your application to point to the new one every time it
changed.

What about multiple versions installed at the same time? Is that allowed?
Who gets the generic symlink, the highest version, the last installed,
user choice? Those might be tough questions, but in general the idea seems
alright, because if they want to specify what specific major version to
use they can still do that.

Kris Jurka