Re: Re: Add minor version to v3 protocol to allow changes without breaking backwards compatibility

Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Ants Aasma <ants.aasma@eesti.ee>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Mikko Tiihonen <mikko.tiihonen@nitorcreations.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-01-23T09:03:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Ants Aasma:

> I had a run in with this. JDBC driver versions < 9.0 with the default
> configuration resulted in silent data corruption. The fix was easy, but not
> having an useful error was what really bothered me.

Same for the DBD::Pg driver.

In this particular case, I knew that the change was coming and could
push updated Java and Perl client libraries well before the server-side
change hit our internal repository, but I really don't want to have to
pay attention to such details.

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