Re: libpq.so

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-06-18T15:30:54Z
Lists: pgsql-novice
<ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> writes:
> The most verbose solution I've seen, is to "copy" libpq.so.3 to
> libpq.so.2 so that ogo will find a libpq.so library.  I would
> guess a symbolic link would actually be better, but the question I
> have is:
>  Do all of the functions common to libpq.so in version 2 and 3
>  have the same parameters?

There are some incompatibilities (which is why we changed the major
version number).  As best I recall at the moment, the incompatibilities
would only affect applications that use LISTEN/NOTIFY, which not many
do.  So the above would probably work, but it's not certain.

			regards, tom lane