Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> * Do we bump the .so major version number for libpq?
> I'm not very familiar with library versioning, but the modern solution
> is to use symbol versioning. In that scheme, a backwards-compatible
> change, like adding new functions, requires a bump of the minor version
> number only. I believe all major modern platforms supports symbol
> versioning.
Yeah, but we are still supporting some not-so-modern platforms. In any
case, to go this route we would have to figure out how to make symbol
versioning work on *every* supported platform, not only the easy ones.
That might be a good long-term goal but I don't want to buy into making
it happen for 8.3.
regards, tom lane