Re: [HACKERS] Is it time to kill support for very old servers?

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От Andres Freund
Тема Re: [HACKERS] Is it time to kill support for very old servers?
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Msg-id 20171011011427.mleoeif4h3h2jhq7@alap3.anarazel.de
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Ответ на Re: [HACKERS] Is it time to kill support for very old servers?  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
Ответы Re: [HACKERS] Is it time to kill support for very old servers?  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
Re: [HACKERS] Is it time to kill support for very old servers?  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

On 2017-10-11 10:09:34 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > On 2017-09-20 01:32:36 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> Coverage of the relevant files is a good bit higher afterwards. Although
> >> our libpq coverage is generally pretty damn awful.
> >
> > Any opinions on this? Obviously this needs some cleanup, but I'd like to
> > know whether we've concensus on adding a connection option for this goal
> > before investing more time into this.
> >
> > A nearby thread [1] whacks around some the v2 code, which triggered me
> > to look into this. I obviously can just use thiese patches to test those
> > patches during development, but it seems better to keep coverage.
> 
> FWIW, I think that moving forward with such a possibility is a good
> thing, including having a connection parameter. This would pay in the
> long term if a new protocol version is added.

> 0001 should document the new parameter.

I'm actually inclined not to, and keep this as a undocumented debugging
option. Limiting the use of this option to people willing to read the
code seems like a good idea to me.

> 
> +   if (conn->forced_protocol_version != NULL)
> +   {
> +       conn->pversion = atoi(conn->forced_protocol_version);
> +   }
> This should check for strlen > 0 as well.

Why? Note that we don't do elsehwere in fe-connect.c.


Greetings,

Andres Freund


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