Re: PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > meaning if ecpg references PGnotify, should it have a new major number
> > too,
> 
> No, because PGnotify is *not part of ecpg's API*.
> 
> The ecpg library, when compiled, will show a dependency on the new major
> number for libpq.  That does not mean that applications linked to ecpg
> need to be recompiled.  They don't (unless they depend directly on libpq
> too).

OK, got it.  That's the think I needed to understand.

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