Re: static pg_dump

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> > Is there any way we could build a static version of the 7.4 pg_dump, to 
> > make it easy to dump existing databases using the 7.4 dump?  Otherwise, 
> > it's quite difficult to arrange to have two different postgres 
> > installations, etc...
> 
> Why?  There should be no problem installing both 7.3 and 7.4 libpq.so
> --- if they don't have different version numbers, something's wrong.

libpq? I thought only the minor version number changed. On linux that means
you can only usefully have one installed at once, the older one would never be
used. I think on other OSes the older one might be used sometimes.

In any case, can't 7.3 pg_dump use the 7.4 libpq? 
If not then the major version should be bumped.

-- 
greg