From: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:17:51 -0400 (AST)
Message-ID: <20030311211526.H72192@hub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19041.1047322279@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <19041.1047322279@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> One of the $64 questions that has to be answered is how much work we're
> willing to expend on backwards compatibility. The path of least
> resistance would be to handle it the same way we've done protocol
> revisions in the past: the backend will be able to handle both old and
> new protocols (so it can talk to old clients) but libpq would be revised
> to speak only the new protocol (so new/recompiled clients couldn't talk
> to old backends). We've gotten away with this approach in the past, but
> the last time was release 6.4. I fully expect to hear more complaints
> now.
Personally ... as long as a v8.x client can talk to a v7.x backend, you
have my vote ... I'm more apt to upgrade my clients before my servers
anyway ...
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