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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: emorley@heroku.com
To: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 12 release notes missing breaking change in libpq
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:33:10 +0900
Message-ID: <20191017013310.GC5605@paquier.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <157123155668.25311.9369950798665566339@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
References: <157123155668.25311.9369950798665566339@wrigleys.postgresql.org>

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 01:12:36PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> In PostgreSQL 12, libpq's parsing of connection string integer parameters
> was made more strict, such that invalid values now result in an error rather
> than being silently ignored:
> https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/e7a2217978d9cbb2149bfcb4ef1e45716cfcbefb
> 
> This change resulted in runtime errors/crashes for some of our customers
> after we upgraded the Heroku stack images to use v12 of the PostgreSQL
> client libs.
> 
> We had checked the release notes, but it's not currently mentioned:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/release-12.html
> 
> Please could it be added?

I think it makes sense to mention that.  Bruce, why not adding an item
about that in the "Migration to Version 12" section?  Was that
intentionally left out?
--
Michael

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