Re: libpq API incompatibility between 7.4 and 8.0

Tom Lane wrote:
> Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> writes:
> >> I am thinking the easiest solution will be to re-add get_progname() to
> >> 8.0.X and bump the major for 8.1.
> 
> > Seconded. Then we don't need another library version, and it is still
> > not necessary to drag this get_progname accident forever.
> 
> We're going to stop dragging the accident now, not a year from now.
> 
> Putting get_progname back into libpq would require re-adding all of
> path.c, which creates many more issues than just adjusting
> SO_MAJOR_VERSION would do.

Why can't we just put a copy of get_progname into libpq, rather than
bring the entire file from libpgport?

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