OK, seeing that we don't have a third number, do people want me to
increment the interface numbers for 7.3.1, or just wait for the
increment in 7.4?
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > It is not real clear to me whether we need a major version bump, rather
> > than a minor one. We *do* need to signal binary incompatibility. Who
> > can clarify the rules here?
>
> Strictly speaking, it's platform-dependent, but our shared library code
> plays a bit of abuse with it. What it comes down to is:
>
> If you change or remove an interface, increment the major version number.
> If you add an interface, increment the minor version number. If you did
> neither but changed the source code at all, increment the third version
> number, if we had one.
>
> To be thoroughly amused, read the libtool source. Grep for 'version_type'.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
>
>
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