Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> A workable fix, at least from the point of view of a Debian developer, is to
> put the soname number into the package name (libpq3, libpq4, libpq5, etc.),
> thus making them unique and coinstallable for all times.
FWIW, the package names Red Hat has been using for compat libraries are
postgresqlclient7
postgresqlclient81
It might have been more consistent to call the first one
postgresqlclient74, but that's where we are ...
regards, tom lane