On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM Christoph Berg <[email protected]> wrote: > Re: Robert Haas > > So you support calling it libpq.so.5 forever, no matter how much we change? > > I would say SONAME/ABI/API breakages are not a tool to promote better > SSL settings. If we want to move to sslmode=verify-full by default, we > should just do that. I don't see why adding extra ABI/API pain would > make that transition any better for users. > > We can move to libpq6 if there are technical reasons, but the general > pain will be long-lasting until the whole world has caught up. (Debian > etc can switch pretty easily, but there's a gazillion of third-party > things.)
OK, good to know. I somehow can't get over how crazy it seems to hadcode the version to 5 forever, but, eh, [ old man yells at cloud emoji here ]. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
