Re: Nearing final release?

Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > It seems most logical to me to break the fundamental operations into:
> > 1.  Prepare to create the compiled query plan
> > 2.  Describe to bind the query input/output parameters
> > 3.  Execute to produce a result set
> >
> > Or equivalent functionality.  Then, you can bind all three parts into
> > one operation if you want to, or you can execute the tasks separately.
> >
> > The notion of a flag to tell whether to return a result set or not has 
> > a
> > smell of kludge to me.
> >
> > On the other hand, if getting something working in a hurry is the main
> > purpose, then a flag might be the best way to go, and it could be more
> > carefully refactored later.
> 
> FWIW, is libpq going to have its version bumped?  There's some interest 
> in having this done from the FreeBSD camp because it make detecting 
> installed verions of libpq much easier (7.4 client libs working with an 
> 8.0 server?).  In FreeBSD the server is split from the client programs 
> and its libs.  I'm sure other packagers may wish to see this happen 
> too.  *shrug*  -sc

We do a minor libpq version bump for every major PostgreSQL release.

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