Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Client-side password encryption

[Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>]

Tom Lane wrote:

> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
>  
>
> > Are there any reasons why we shouldn't change the libname with every
> > release like for UNIX? I can't think of any, but you never know...
> >    
>
> Surely that cure is far worse than the disease.  You'd be trading a
> might-break risk (app using new function will fail if used with old
> library) for a guaranteed-to-break risk (*every* app fails if used
> with *any* library version other than what it was built against).
>
> The Unix version of the idea is considerably more flexible than
> what would happen on Windows.
>  
Different from Unix distros, win32 apps will always bring all their 
required libraries with them, so it's totally under control of the 
developer/packager. There's no such thing as prerequisite packages for 
win32 installs, new lib names will *not* break other apps when installed 
because older ones stay untouched.

Regards,
Andreas