Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
>> Perhaps 7.3.1 could include a true, 7.2-style libpq.so.2.2 to overwrite
>> any 7.3-style version that the original 7.3 may have installed under that
>> name?
> That's an interesting idea, but then 7.3 binaries would link to
> libpq.so.2.2, which is bad.
There are a number of problems with that, but the biggie is that the old
binary API is inherently dependent on NAMEDATALEN. We can *not* ship a
library that is both 100% backwards compatible and 100% compatible to
a standard-issue 7.3 server.
regards, tom lane
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