Re: Cleaning up multiply-defined-symbol warnings on OS X

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> I am thinking your patch is a good idea because it will give us a
> non-Win32 platform that has the _check_ behavior.  We do have to bump
> the major for ecpg libs for this, but not libpq.

No, because if 8.2 ships with a libpq.so.4 that doesn't expose
pqGetpwuid, it will look like pre-8.2 versions of libecpg will work
with that libpq.  Which they won't.  You can't remove exported
functions (whether the export was intentional or no) without a
major version bump.

            regards, tom lane