PostgreSQL 8.0.2 released with patent fix [LWN.net]

PostgreSQL 8.0.2 released with patent fix

Posted Apr 12, 2005 4:34 UTC (Tue) by jwb (guest, #15467)
In reply to: PostgreSQL 8.0.2 released with patent fix by dlang
Parent article: PostgreSQL 8.0.2 released with patent fix

Am I reading this incorrectly, or did they in fact break the wire protocol? If I move to 8.0.2, do I
need to recompile applications on totally unrelated machines? Or are they saying that I will need to
replace applications that run on the database server, due to the soversion increasing? if the latter,
why can't I just keep my old .so?

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PostgreSQL 8.0.2 released with patent fix

Posted Apr 12, 2005 12:29 UTC (Tue) by nconway (guest, #3391) [Link]

The wire protocol did not change. All that happened is that the major version number of the libpq .so has been bumped. If you don't want to recompile any applications, just keep the 8.0.1 libpq around as well.