On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 05:34:44PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > But is it OK to add a function to the library without bumping the > version? AFAICS all you have reverted is the version bump, so we could
With most people refering to ecpg 8.3.1 (for instance) anyway I think the risk is rather small. > have two versions of the library with the same version number, one with > the new function and one without - that seems somewhat undesirable. It is indeed. > Also, regardless of the safety or otherwise, isn't it our standard > practice not to change anything in stable releases except for bug fixes? > That's part of what makes Postgres so stable, in fact. I still fail to see how this added function could pose a problem. It does, however, fix a bug - make that a missing, undocumenterd feature - that causes the aubit application to break. Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go VfL Borussia! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! -- Sent via pgsql-committers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-committers
