On 2016-08-23 11:42:53 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > I think this could possibly be done, but it seems a lot better to me > to just bite the bullet and add a new protocol message. That was > proposed by Tom Lane on July 31st and I think it's still by far the > best and easiest idea proposed, except I think we could introduce it > without waiting for a bigger rework of the protocol if we design the > libpq APIs carefully. Most of the rest of this thread seems to have > devolved into an argument about whether this is really necessary, > which IMHO is a pretty silly argument, instead of focusing on how it > might be done, which I think would be a much more productive > conversation.
I agree about the odd course of the further discussion, especially the tone was rather odd. But I do think it's valuable to think about a path that fixes the issue without requiring version-dependant adaptions in all client drivers. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
