Re: Removing useless \. at the end of copy in pgbench

> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
>> While populating pgbench_account table by using COPY FROM STDIN,
>> pgbench sends out "\." at the end of the copy data. However this is
>> only necessary in the version 2 of frontend/backend protocol (i.e. the
>> version 3 protocol does not need it). I think we can safely remove the
>> code to save a few CPU cycle since we only support back to PostgreSQL
>> 9.3 and the version 3 protocol has been supported since 7.4.
>
> What exactly is the benefit of breaking compatibility with old servers?
> Saving a few cycles during initial table population seems like it could
> not be of interest to anyone.

Then we can do protocol version checking to not break backward
compatibility. I believe this is what psql does. So this will bring a
benefit to make our clients more consistent.

Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
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