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Re: Removing support for COPY FROM STDIN in protocol version 2

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-02-04T15:21:00Z
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On 2021-Feb-04, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Ok, here we go.

> Are you going to bump the .so version for this?  I think that should be
> done, since some functions disappear and there are struct changes.  It
> is curious, though, to see that exports.txt needs no changes.

Uh, what?  There should be no externally visible ABI changes in libpq
(he says without having read the patch).  If there's a need for a library
major version bump, that'd be sufficient reason not to do this IMO.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Avoid extra newline in errors received in FE protocol version 2.

  2. Remove server and libpq support for old FE/BE protocol version 2.

  3. Handle reading of startup packet and authentication exchange after forking