In the continuing saga of FE/BE protocol revisions, add reporting of

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 9cbaf7217747d6b5c88ba9b500a37b8372f185c9
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2003-04-25T19:45:10Z
Releases: 7.4.1
In the continuing saga of FE/BE protocol revisions, add reporting of
initial values and runtime changes in selected parameters.  This gets
rid of the need for an initial 'select pg_client_encoding()' query in
libpq, bringing us back to one message transmitted in each direction
for a standard connection startup.  To allow server version to be sent
using the same GUC mechanism that handles other parameters, invent the
concept of a never-settable GUC parameter: you can 'show server_version'
but it's not settable by any GUC input source.  Create 'lc_collate' and
'lc_ctype' never-settable parameters so that people can find out these
settings without need for pg_controldata.  (These side ideas were all
discussed some time ago in pgsql-hackers, but not yet implemented.)

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