Greg Stark wrote: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there any way we could build a static version of the 7.4 pg_dump, to > > > make it easy to dump existing databases using the 7.4 dump? Otherwise, > > > it's quite difficult to arrange to have two different postgres > > > installations, etc... > > > > Why? There should be no problem installing both 7.3 and 7.4 libpq.so > > --- if they don't have different version numbers, something's wrong. > > libpq? I thought only the minor version number changed. On linux that means > you can only usefully have one installed at once, the older one would never be > used. I think on other OSes the older one might be used sometimes. > > In any case, can't 7.3 pg_dump use the 7.4 libpq? > If not then the major version should be bumped.
7.4 pg_dump should be able to use 7.3's libpq --- the API has not changed, so we didn't bump the major number. -- 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 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
