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Re: pgsql: libpq: Grease the protocol by default

Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>

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From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-02-25T10:27:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2026-Feb-24, Jacob Champion wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 12:40 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > These look sane to me.  I might suggest a small wording change in
> > the <= 17 patches:
> >
> > -        * Back-branch-specific complication: for libpq versions prior to PG18,
> > +        * Back-branch-specific complication: in libpq versions prior to PG18,
> >
> > but it probably isn't worth the trouble to edit four separate patches.
> 
> By the power of sed, it is done.

What I normally do for this kind of thing is commit the typo fix in a
separate commit, then cherry-pick that to other branches, then use
rebase -i to squash it as a fix-up of the previous commit on all
branches.

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Commits

  1. pg_upgrade: Use max_protocol_version=3.0 for older servers

  2. libpq: Grease the protocol by default

  3. libpq: Prepare for protocol grease during 19beta