| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Is it time to kill support for very old servers? |
| Date: | 2017-09-14 15:28:47 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoZvSjJf9RJ2WtEZx7=bwCRVTTvV9DfnQKgH9_DMAH3oFg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:39 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> One small problem with cutting libpq's V2 support is that the server's
>>> report_fork_failure_to_client() function still sends a V2-style message.
>
>> We should really fix that so it reports the error as a v3 message,
>> independent of ripping out libpq-fe support for v2.
>
> It might be reasonable to do that, but libpq would have to be prepared
> for the other case for many years to come :-(
Well, let's get that much done anyway. I'm not 100% sure whether the
time has come to kill v2 with fire, but doing the things that have
been done first has got to be a good idea either way.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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