Re: [DOCS] Details about libpq cross-version compatibility

2012-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
Sebastien FLAESCH writes: > If a future major version (for ex 9.3) implements a new strategic feature > that makes libpq headers incompatible with prior versions, what shall we > do with our convention? Shall we ship 9.x (where 0<=x<=2) drivers and 9.3+ > drivers? What if a next major version impl

Re: [DOCS] Details about libpq cross-version compatibility

2012-09-13 Thread Sebastien FLAESCH
Thank you Heikki for your answer! I can write a paragraph, (hence I did never do that => where can I find info to contribute on the doc?) But so far it's not quite clear to me: You write "That really shouldn't be necessary", when I write that we have to ship different drivers for each major Pos

Re: [DOCS] Details about libpq cross-version compatibility

2012-09-13 Thread Sebastien FLAESCH
On 09/13/2012 01:38 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 13.09.2012 11:59, Sebastien FLAESCH wrote: On 09/13/2012 10:19 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: What I meant is that it probably isn't necessary to ship 5 drivers. The latest version of libpq works against older server versions, so you could jus

Re: [DOCS] Details about libpq cross-version compatibility

2012-09-13 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 13.09.2012 11:59, Sebastien FLAESCH wrote: On 09/13/2012 10:19 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: What I meant is that it probably isn't necessary to ship 5 drivers. The latest version of libpq works against older server versions, so you could just ship one version of the dbmpgs driver (the latest

Re: [DOCS] Details about libpq cross-version compatibility

2012-09-13 Thread Sebastien FLAESCH
On 09/13/2012 10:19 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: On 13.09.2012 10:46, Sebastien FLAESCH wrote: Thank you Heikki for your answer! I can write a paragraph, (hence I did never do that => where can I find info to contribute on the doc?) Just follow the style and language of the rest of the docs

Re: [DOCS] Details about libpq cross-version compatibility

2012-09-13 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 13.09.2012 10:46, Sebastien FLAESCH wrote: Thank you Heikki for your answer! I can write a paragraph, (hence I did never do that => where can I find info to contribute on the doc?) Just follow the style and language of the rest of the docs the best that you can. If you can submit the chang

Re: [DOCS] Details about libpq cross-version compatibility

2012-09-13 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 12.09.2012 18:21, Sebastien FLAESCH wrote: I believe there is some info missing in the page describing libpq programs build: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/libpq-build.html I am working with PostgreSQL for several years now (since V7), maintaining a set of "db drivers" for ou