Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2013-09-10 12:31:22 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> I've been thinking of late that it might be time to retire libpq's
>>> support for V2 protocol (other than in the specific context of the first
>>> error message received while trying to make a connection).
>> It's probably worth polling for that. I believe the jdbc driver at
>> least has code for it, but I don't know if it's a requirement at this
>> point.
> Yes, it has code for it and I think it's still used pretty frequently to
> circumvent prepared statement planning problems (misestimation,
> indeterminate types). So I think we need convincing reasons to break
> their usage.
Note that I was proposing removing libpq's support for V2 connections.
Not the backend's.
regards, tom lane