Re: Re: What needs to be done?

GUC is how this type of stuff is controlled on the server, but I don't
know of any examples where it controlls client only functionality.  Why
would you want parameters on the server that the server doesn't use?

thanks,
--Barry

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>>If people feel that backwards compatibiliy is important I would suggest
>>it be done in the following way:
>>
>>A new connection parameter named 'compatible' be defined whose default
>>value is 7.2 (i.e new functionality).  But you could set compatible=7.1
>>to revert back to the old functionality.  (This is how Oracle deals with
>>similar issues in its code base).  This parameter could then be set
>>either in the JDBC URL (i.e.
>>jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432:template1?compatible=7.1) or passed
>>explicily in the connect() method.
>>
>
> GUC seems to be the way to control these things.  It can be set in
> postgresql.conf and via a SET command.
>
>