* Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: > BTW, if we're beating on libpq, I wonder if we shouldn't consider > bumping the soversion at some point. I mean, I know that we > technically don't need to do that if we're only *adding* functions and > not changing any of the existing stuff in backward-incompatible ways, > but we might *want* to make some backward-incompatible changes at some > point, and I think there's a decent argument that any patch in this > are is already doing that at least to PQgetSSL(). Maybe this would be > a good time to think if there's anything else we want to do that > would, either by itself or in combination, justify a bump.
I'm not a big fan of doing it for this specific item, though it's
technically an API breakage (which means we should actually have
libpq2-dev packages, make everything that build-deps on libpq-dev
update to build-dep on libpq2-dev, have libpq6, etc..). If there are
other backwards-incompatible things we wish to do, then I agree that
it'd be good to do them all at the same time (perhaps in conjunction
with 10.0...). This is the part where I wish we had been keeping an
updated list of things we want to change (like on the wiki..).
It's certainly not a fun transistion to go through. I also wonder if
we're going to need to worry about what happens when libpq5 and libpq6
end up linked into the same running application. I don't think we
have any symbol versioning or anything to address that risk in place..
Thanks,
Stephen
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