Re: Let's drop V2 protocol

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@oss.ntt.co.jp>, greg@2ndquadrant.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, shigeru.hanada@gmail.com
Date: 2012-02-24T17:17:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Fix COPY FROM for null marker strings that correspond to invalid encoding.

  2. Improve labeling of pg_test_fsync open_sync test output.

Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:46:19AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> As for taking it out of libpq, I would vote against doing that as long
>> as we have pg_dump support for pre-7.4 servers.  Now, I think it would
>> be entirely reasonable to kill pg_dump's support for pre-7.3 servers,
>> because that would simplify life in numerous ways for pg_dump; but 7.4
>> was not a big compatibility break for pg_dump so it seems a bit
>> arbitrary to kill its support for 7.3 specifically.

> So we need to maintain V2 protocol in libpq to specifically support 7.3?

> What's so special about 7.3?

From pg_dump's viewpoint, the main thing about 7.3 is it's where we
added server-tracked object dependencies.  It also has schemas, though
I don't recall at the moment how much effort pg_dump has to spend on
faking those for an older server.

			regards, tom lane