Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> Tom Lane rta:
>> It's more the possibility of doing strcmp(tag, "SELECT") on the command
> Actually it's strncmp(tag, "SELECT ", 7), so when you mix old server
> with new clients or new server with old client, it will just work as
> before, i.e. return "".
Are you deliberately ignoring the point? We have no way to know whether
there is any client-side code that's doing a simple check for SELECT
command tag, but it's certainly possible. The fact that it wouldn't be
hard to fix does not mean that it wouldn't be broken.
regards, tom lane