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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: 2021-02-04T15:35:13Z
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> Yeah, the changes I was thinking about are all in libpq-int.h so that's
> not really a problem.  But one enum in libpq-fe.h renumbers values, and
> I think it's better to keep the old value labelled as "unused" to avoid
> any changes.

Oh, yeah, can't do that.  libpq-fe.h probably shouldn't change at all;
but certainly we can't renumber existing enum values there.

			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