Re: Bumping libpq version number?

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:29:46PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > 
> > Does initdb call pg_snprintf directly?  Or does it call some
> > libpq function that calls it?
> 
> With the current CVS, initdb calls pg_snprintf() on my platform which
> doesn't support %$ natively on my libc printf.  Now, initdb could pull
> from pgport itself but I think it pulled from libpq first.  Perhaps we
> should reorder how those libraries appear in the link line but I think
> that would fix just this case, not the more general one of pg client
> apps.

Do "client apps" ever link to pgport itself?  I assume only
"internal" applictions link to it?

I assume libpq is staticly linked to pgport and is exporting
symbols it shouldn't.  Can we prevent it from exporting those
symbols?


Kurt