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Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-03-10T19:52:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca> writes:
>> We already have that: you send a startup packet with a version less than
>> the latest, and the backend speaks that version to you.

> Yes, but that requires you know the backend is less than the latest.

As opposed to knowing what?  You send the version number you wish to speak;
either the backend can handle it, or not.

			regards, tom lane