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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 17:38:42 +1100
From: Bruce Badger <bbadger@BadgerSE.com>
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To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Frontend/Backend protocol changes?
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Tom Lane wrote:
>  
>
>>Bruce Badger <bbadger@BadgerSE.com> writes:
>>    
>>
>>>Have there been any changes at all in the Frontend/Backend protocol 
>>>between 7.2 and 7.3?
>>>I ask, of course, because there were some unannounced changed to the 
>>>protocol between 7.1 and 7.2, and I'd rather not get bitten again ;-)
>>>      
>>>
>>"Unannounced"?  AFAIK doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml has been current for
>>every release since 6.3 or thereabouts.
>>    
>>
>
>As I remember, he got bitten by a change that wasn't prominent in our
>release notes.
>  
>
I do watch this list for any discussion of changes to the protocol, but 
from Tom's response I guess I should also be looking at protocol.sgml. 
 Could someone point me to the definitive version of this file so I can 
monitor changes to it?  Thanks.

BTW, I think the main reason I got bitten at 7.2 was because the 
protocol changed, but the protocol version number did not.

While I'm on the keyboard, I'd like to say how much I appreciate the 
work that Tom, Bruce et al put into making PostgreSQL the system it is. 
 Thanks for a really great job.

All the best,
    Bruce Badger