Lee Kindness wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > > Lee Kindness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Perhaps the .so name should have been updated for PostgreSQL 7.3? > > > > > > It should have been. If it wasn't, that was a serious oversight. > > > Not sure if we should change it in 7.3.1 or not, though; it may be > > > too late for that. Any thoughts out there? > > Seems I did forget. I always update the minor for a major release, but > > when development starts, and I seem to have forgotten for 7.3. Sorry. > > Personally I think automatically updating the version numbers is as > bad as not doing it at all - it misses the point. > > The version numbers in shared library filenames denote binary > compatibilty, if the /public/ API changes then the version number > really must be incremented. > > If the version increments without any associated API changes then it's > just a PITA for developers and products linking to the PostgreSQL > libraries! It forces recompilation when there is not really a need.
It is my understanding that only the major number force recompliation. We came up with this procedure after quite a bit of discussion. I am happy to change it, but I need more than one person to tell me that. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
