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

Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>

From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>

To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Jacob Burroughs <jburroughs@instructure.com>, Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, "Andrey M. Borodin" <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>

Date: 2024-08-16T14:54:44Z

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libpq: Add min/max_protocol_version connection options
- 285613c60a7a 18.0 landed
libpq: Handle NegotiateProtocolVersion message differently
- 5070349102af 18.0 landed
Add PQfullProtocolVersion() to surface the precise protocol version.
- cdb6b0fdb0b2 18.0 landed
Do not hardcode PG_PROTOCOL_LATEST in NegotiateProtocolVersion
- 516b87502dc1 18.0 landed
libpq: Handle NegotiateProtocolVersion message
- bbf9c282ce92 16.0 cited
Provide for forward compatibility with future minor protocol versions.
- ae65f6066dc3 11.0 cited

On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 at 16:51, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> wrote:
> That said, I think we *should* change the default for the time being, so
> that developers working on the bleeding edge and building from git get
> some exposure to it. Hopefully that will nudge some of the poolers to
> adopt NegotiateProtocolVersion sooner. But we revert the default to 3.0
> before the v18 release.

That seems reasonable to me. To be clear, the latest PgBouncer release
now supports NegotiateProtocolVersion.