Tom Lane wrote: > Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What would you propose as a solution? > > Do nothing. The problem you are raising isn't very serious since > RPM-style installations don't support concurrent installation of > multiple PG versions anyway. That being the case, it doesn't really > matter whether 8.0 psql can use a 7.4 library or vice versa.
Partial upgrades is the key word. > To do otherwise would essentially amount to deciding that > get_progname is part of the exported API of libpq forevermore. > That's not something I'm willing to buy into. It was a mistake that > it was done that way in 7.4, and I want to rectify that mistake > before it gets any more entrenched. We can rectify the mistake, but then we need to change the SONAME. That's what it's for. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
