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Date:      Fri, 08 Feb 2002 00:32:28 +0100
From:      Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   postgresql odbc library version = 0, newer than unixODBC version 2!
Message-ID:  <135100000.1013124748@palle.girgensohn.se>

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Hi!

I am wrapping a ports "collection" for postgresql-7.2 (yes, all you who 
asked, it is *almost* ready ;-). One thing that puzzles me, and that I 
haven't got a good enough answer from the postgresql authors' community is 
this:

unixODBC installs

File: lib/libodbcpsql.so.1
File: lib/libodbcpsql.so.2

but postgresql odbc support installs:

File: lib/libodbcpsql.so.0


The latter is the newest, greatest and best.. this version scheme is of 
course *not* good. :(

What is you suggestion? Shall we modify unixODBC port not to install the 
datasource descriptions for postgres (they will be installed by the new 
postgresql-odbc port in that case), or shall we wait for unixODBC 
developers to wake up and grab the latest postgresql source, or bump the 
version number for the postgresql lib to `2' or perhaps `3', or maybe hope 
that users install postgresql *after* unixODBC and before htey link their 
apps, so the symlink will point to lib/libodbcpsql.so.0 (just kidding)...

Perhaps the difference doesn't make much difference, but the versions of 
these libs are still very wrong.

I don't use ODBC clients on unix, hence I'm not sure how to handle this. 
Suggestions most welcome!

Thanks
Palle

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