Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I am thinking your patch is a good idea because it will give us a
> > non-Win32 platform that has the _check_ behavior.  We do have to bump
> > the major for ecpg libs for this, but not libpq.
> 
> No, because if 8.2 ships with a libpq.so.4 that doesn't expose 
> pqGetpwuid, it will look like pre-8.2 versions of libecpg will work
> with that libpq.  Which they won't.  You can't remove exported
> functions (whether the export was intentional or no) without a
> major version bump.

OK, right.

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