On 4/5/18 02:04, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > Hello, for the support of multiple versions of PostgreSQL RPM packages on > one system, we are thinking about having only one libpq.so.5 > (libecpg.so.6, libpgtype.so.3 respectively) supported and about building > (linking) all the PostgreSQL package versions against that. The pattern > would mean that we'd have to update the system-wide libraries before > adding support for new PostgreSQL major version and that the older > packages (say version =< 9.6) would be run against libs from newer PG > package (say libpq.so.5 from v10). > > Do you think it is a good idea in general?
yes > As a followup thought; there are probably two major obstacles ATM > > - the DSOs' symbols are not yet versioned, and > - the build-system doesn't seem to know how to -lpq link against > external libpq.so It's not clear to me why you would need these, given that Debian has been doing this for many years without this. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
