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From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:58:30 -0800
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Subject: Re: pgsql: libpq: Grease the protocol by default
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>,
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	Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>,
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 10:50=E2=80=AFAM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote=
:
> Simple is good here.  I don't think we'd buy much by distinguishing
> minor versions of already-EOL servers.  Also, I suspect that
> pg_upgrade can't get the minor version except by starting the server
> and asking it --- we don't record anything but major version on-disk.

We do store (the major version part of) `pg_ctl --version` at some
point, which we could improve upon, but I agree that adding additional
complexity here doesn't actually give us any benefit.

--Jacob