Re: Add new protocol message to change GUCs for usage with future protocol-only GUCs

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jacob Burroughs <jburroughs(at)instructure(dot)com>, Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "Andrey M(dot) Borodin" <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Daniele Varrazzo <daniele(dot)varrazzo(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Add new protocol message to change GUCs for usage with future protocol-only GUCs
Date: 2024-08-20 17:42:15
Message-ID: CAKFQuwZXJeKzq-a0ChL4oF105xu6T_BMZErcbNSvy_6VuYeMfQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 10:31 AM Jacob Champion <
jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> If we decide we can't, then so be it -- things will
> break either way -- but it's still strange to me that we'd be okay
> with literally zero forward compatibility and still call that a "minor
> version".
>

Semantic versioning guidelines are not something we are following,
especially here.

Our protocol version is really just two-part; just like our server major
version used to be. We just happen to have named both parts here, unlike
with the historical server major version.

We never have implemented a protocol change during a minor server version
update, it doesn't have (though maybe it needs?) a patch version part.

David J.

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