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Re: Getting to 8.3 beta1
- From: "Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD" <Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)s-itsolutions(dot)at>
- To: "Darcy Buskermolen" <darcyb(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
- Subject: Re: Getting to 8.3 beta1
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:49:22 +0200
> > * Do we bump the .so major version number for libpq? I think we should > > because there are two new exported functions since 8.2, and on at least > > some platforms there's nothing else than major number to disambiguate > > whether a client needs these or not. Comments? -1. You don't bump major if the old api can be used 1:1 with the new lib. New functions is not a reason for a major bump. The major version business is to protect you from ruining currently running (old) programs, not from using a too old lib with newly compiled programs. Andreas
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