Re: Issue with libpq < 8.4

Le 24/08/2010 13:01, Magnus Hagander a écrit :
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
>> wrote:
>>> This "disqualifies" pgAdmin3 from quite a lot of platforms. There
>>> aren't that many that are on 8.4+ yet :-(
>>
>> If the packagers are willing to update pgAdmin to 1.12, it seems
>> highly likely that they'll also update their PostgreSQL package to
>> 8.4+ too. The distros with a conservative update policy (like Debian
>> Stable) won't update either.
>
> It's probably going to make it very hard for a backports repository to
> carry it though :( But I guess it could keep a backport of libpq as
> well, since it's always backwards compatible.
>

Can't we just have it set a variable we could check with a #ifdef? We
don't use PQconninfoParse in many files (actually, two). So it would be
pretty easy to add the #ifdef line, so that it won't be a big issue for
packagers.


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