Alexey Yudichev wrote:
>>Also, any thoughts on making the LO vs. bytea behaviour a separate
>>option, rather than lumping it in with 7.1 compatibility? It seems quite
>>possible that you might want to use LOs for get/setBytes() but use the
>>most up to date driver behaviour elsewhere.
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> Are there any other changes in driver behaviour triggered by compatibility=7.1 other than LO-related ones? If yes,
thatwould be a good idea to separate them from LO changes, because LOs are the only reason I use compatibility=7.1
parameter.
Currently, the only thing affected by the compatible parameter is the
LO-vs-bytea issue. But there could be behavioural changes in the future
that could be controlled by that same parameter.. as I understand it,
it's there to support existing applications during the transition period
after some sort of behavioural change in the driver, not to support two
different behaviours indefinitely.
-O