> I couldn't find appropriate system documentation. Regarding Linux, I > remember I saw some HOWTO on tldp.org website which explains the > concept of shared library soname, but it's not very friendly for > users who just want to know the application binary compatibility > policy of PostgreSQL. And I don't think there's suitable
I would expect Unix sysadmins to understand that howto, but there are others, e.g. a random hit from google: https://www.bottomupcs.com/libra ries_and_the_linker.xhtml There even is a wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Soname > documentation on Windows. Even if there is any, users will not be > sure whether PostgreSQL follows those platform-specific > conventions. They may have doubts about it, because even the product > version "PostgreSQL x.y.z" causes misconception that x is the major > version and y is the minor one. I don't know anything about the Windows setup in PostgreSQL, but I would find it fair to assume that PostgreSQL follows conventions. > BTW, although this may be a separate topic, it may be better that we > add the major version in the library names like libpq5.dll and > libecpg6.dll, so that the application can fail to run with the > incompatible versions of libpq and libecpg. FYI: Does this mean you cannot have to versions of libpq installed on the same Windows system at the same time? Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
