On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 09:37:34AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > Yes, this is absolutely the right answer, we shouldn't be removing > symbols without an SONAME bump. If we don't want to bump the SONAME, > then don't remove the symbol. This is utterly basic proper library > maintenance and it isn't appropriate to argue that it's about "well, > your old apps shouldn't exist" because it's blatently our fault for not > bumping the SONAME, no matter how old the apps are.
+1. If we were to bump the SONAME, more cleanup could be actually done, and I got some pushback not long ago regarding some undocumented APIs in libpq that we still ship for the exact same reasons: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7990.1565550...@sss.pgh.pa.us -- Michael
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