Re: PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:06:47PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > 
> > Yes.  You will have libpq.so.3.0 in 7.3.1; and you have libpq.so.2.2
> > from 7.3 (and also from 7.2.x, though in fact they are different).  If
> > you have installed 7.3.1 on top of 7.3, you will have libpq.so.3
> > (symlinked to libpq.so.3.0) from 7.3.1, and libpq.so.2 (symlinked to
> > libpq.so.2.2) from an earlier release.
> 
> Doesn't that mean that a user upgrading from 7.3 to 7.3.1 will have two
> libraries, libpq.so.2.2 and libpq.so.3, that both adhere to the 7.3 ABI?
> 
> Perhaps 7.3.1 could include a true, 7.2-style libpq.so.2.2 to overwrite
> any 7.3-style version that the original 7.3 may have installed under that
> name?

That's an interesting idea, but then 7.3 binaries would link to
libpq.so.2.2, which is bad.

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