From: Bruce Badger <bruce_badger@badgerse.com>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign
Date: 11 Mar 2003 09:42:56 +1100
Message-ID: <1047336177.10725.15.camel@alice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <303E00EBDD07B943924382E153890E5433F7F4@cuthbert.rcsinc.local>
References: <303E00EBDD07B943924382E153890E5433F7F4@cuthbert.rcsinc.local>
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:18, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > If the backend can not handle the version I request, but can handle a
> > prior version, I'd like to know. I am planning on having handlers for
> > multiple protocol versions in the same memory space (I'm using
> > Smalltalk, BTW) so that one application can talk to various databases
> of
> > various vintages.
> >
> how about a system table, say pg_features which can be queried by the fe
> interface? This could be a table of bools with named features and/or
> other little widgets for compatibility. No protocol modification
> required, unless the scope of the protocol change is such that you can't
> execute a connection and a query.
But wouldn't you have to connect to get this information? Surely this
is a catch 22.
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