From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>,
        Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>,
        pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Removing support for COPY FROM STDIN in protocol version 2
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Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
	message dated "Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:05:42 -0300"
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 10:21:00 -0500
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2021-Feb-04, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Ok, here we go.

> Are you going to bump the .so version for this?  I think that should be
> done, since some functions disappear and there are struct changes.  It
> is curious, though, to see that exports.txt needs no changes.

Uh, what?  There should be no externally visible ABI changes in libpq
(he says without having read the patch).  If there's a need for a library
major version bump, that'd be sufficient reason not to do this IMO.

			regards, tom lane