| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, 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> |
| Subject: | Re: Add new protocol message to change GUCs for usage with future protocol-only GUCs |
| Date: | 2024-08-16 19:26:51 |
| Message-ID: | d28a5ad2-7684-43cd-aa95-861fa2f102a2@iki.fi |
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On 16/08/2024 21:01, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 1:44 PM Jacob Champion
> <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2/blob/658afe4cd90d3e167d7c98d22824a8d6ec895b1c/tests/test_async.py#L89
>> https://github.com/infusion/PHP/blob/7ebefb6426bb4b4820a30cca5c3a10bfd757b6ea/ext/pgsql/pgsql.c#L864
>
> IMHO these examples establish beyond doubt that the existing function
> really is being used in ways that would break if we committed the
> proposed patch. To be honest, I'm slightly surprised, because protocol
> version 2 has been so dead for so long that I would not have
> anticipated people would even bother checking for it. But these
> examples show that some people do. If Jacob found these examples this
> easily, there are probably a bunch of others.
>
> It's not worth breaking existing code to avoid adding one new libpq
> entrypoint. Let's just add the new function and move on.
+1. Jacob is right.
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Heikki Linnakangas
Neon (https://neon.tech)
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