On Mon, 2024-06-03 at 15:38 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > On 2024-06-03 14:43:17 -0400, David E. Wheeler wrote: > > > * The ABI is guaranteed to change only in backward compatible ways in > > > minor > > > releases. If for some reason it doesn’t it’s a bug that will need to be > > > fixed. > > > Thus I am not really on board with this statement as-is. > > Me either. There are degrees of ABI compatibility, and we'll choose > the least invasive way, but it's seldom the case that no conceivable > extension will be broken.
oracle_fdw has been broken by minor releases several times in the past. This may well be because of weird things that I am doing; still, my experience is that minor releases are not always binary compatible. > > It'd be interesting to see a few examples of actual minor-version-upgrade > > extension breakages, so we can judge what caused them. > > Yes, that could be a fruitful discussion. Digging through my commits brought up 6214e2b2280462cbc3aa1986e350e167651b3905, for one. Yours, Laurenz Albe
