On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 15:19, Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> wrote: > > One complication with this was that because we no longer know how long > > the key should be, 4-bytes or something longer, until the backend has > > performed the protocol negotiation, we cannot generate the key in the > > postmaster before forking the process anymore. > > Maybe this would be easier if it's a protocol version number change, > since that is sent earlier than protocol extensions?
Protocol version and protocol extensions are both sent in the StartupMessage, so the same complication applies. (But I do agree that a protocol version bump is more appropriate for this type of change)
