OK, so what do we do with 7.3.1. Increment major or minor?
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pgman wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> Wrong --- if you need a recompile then it's not binary-compatible, so
> > >> it should be a major version bump.
> >
> > > But the previous poster said only API changes were reasons to bump the
> > > major, right?
> >
> > Yes. He meant *binary* API changes, though, ie, anything that would
> > break extant executables originally linked to the prior version of the
> > shared library.
>
> Just for clarification --- don't most/all our releases make a binary
> change that needs are compile? Actually, you are saying a recompile of
> the client, right? Yes, we do those rarely, and in 7.3, for the NOTIFY
> structure change. What we do often is want old binaries to use our new
> libraries. That isn't a major bump requirement, right?
>
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