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

Ants Aasma <ants.aasma@eesti.ee>

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From: Ants Aasma <ants.aasma@eesti.ee>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikko Tiihonen <mikko.tiihonen@nitorcreations.com>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-01-21T10:51:55Z
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On 19 Jan 2012 21:00, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree.  It occurs to me that we recently changed the default *text*
> output format for bytea for reasons not dissimilar to those
> contemplated here.  Presumably, that's a much more disruptive change,
> and yet we've had minimal complaints because anyone who gets bitten
> can easily set bytea_output='escape' and the problem goes away.

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.

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Ants Aasma