Re: PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:27:23PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > 
> > It is not real clear to me whether we need a major version bump, rather
> > than a minor one.  We *do* need to signal binary incompatibility.  Who
> > can clarify the rules here?
> 
> One thing I wonder about: should the rules make any distinction between
> API incompatibilities and client protocol incompatibilities?  For the
> former I would imagine one would like to have some "minor" version number
> increase whenever features are added and a "major" number be incremented
> when changes become incompatible.  For the former, one would probably 
> want to have a similar rule but with a dichotomy between server-side
> upgrades and client-side upgrades.

Yes, now that I remember, that was the big distinction.  One requires a
recompile, the other one doesn't even work with a newer db.

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