Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Greg Copeland wrote: > >> Is it possible to automate this as part of the build > >> process so that they get grabbed from some version information during > >> the build? > > > Version bump is one of the few things we do at the start of > > development. > > The real problem here is that major version bump (signifying an > incompatible API change) is something that must NOT be done in an > automated, mindless-checklist way. We should have executed the bump > when we agreed to change PQnotifies' API incompatibly. We screwed up > on that. I think it's correct to fix the error for 7.3.1 --- but we > cannot improve on the situation by making some procedural change to > "always do X at point Y in the release cycle". Sometimes there's > no substitute for actual thinking :-(
Oh, a major bump. I thought we did major bumps only in cases where a recompile will _not_ fix the problem, like changing a parameter value to a function or removing a function or something like 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 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
