Re: Add new protocol message to change GUCs for usage with future protocol-only GUCs

Jelte Fennema-Nio <me@jeltef.nl>

From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <me@jeltef.nl>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Jacob Burroughs <jburroughs@instructure.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com>, "Andrey M. Borodin" <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Date: 2024-04-05T15:28:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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  1. libpq: Add min/max_protocol_version connection options

  2. libpq: Handle NegotiateProtocolVersion message differently

  3. Add PQfullProtocolVersion() to surface the precise protocol version.

  4. Do not hardcode PG_PROTOCOL_LATEST in NegotiateProtocolVersion

  5. libpq: Handle NegotiateProtocolVersion message

  6. Provide for forward compatibility with future minor protocol versions.

On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 16:04, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 1:10 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <me@jeltef.nl> wrote:
> > Attached is a rebased patchset
>
> We should keep talking about this, but I think we're far too close to
> the wire at this point to think about committing anything for v17 at
> this point. These are big changes, they haven't been thoroughly
> reviewed by anyone AFAICT, and we don't have consensus on what we
> ought to be doing. I know that's probably not what you want to hear,
> but realistically, I think that's the only reasonable decision at this
> point.

Agreed on not considering this for PG17 nor this commitfest anymore. I
changed the commit fest entry accordingly.