Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> writes: > BTW, any thoughts on Heikki's suggestions of hacking about the > 'options' value or retrying the connection vs. just doing a SET > post-connection in libpq? It's pretty certain that whatever I choose > you probably won't like :-p
The post-connect SET still seems like the best choice to me. It's mildly annoying that that won't help for log_connections messages, but in the big scheme of things that's really not a killer problem. The retry approach is not too bad from a user perspective: it would only actually happen during a server version mismatch, which isn't *that* common. My recollection though is that there's no graceful way to implement a retry in libpq; you'd need a significant amount of new, ugly, special-purpose code, with the complexity rising very fast if there's more than one reason to retry. If you can figure out a clean implementation this one would be okay with me, but I'm dubious that it's worth the work. That options hack was just an ugly hack, I don't like it at all --- mainly because I don't believe that approach scales to solve more than one case either. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers