> On 4 Dec 2023, at 15:07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
>> I've changed
>> it to add a comment instead which explains why we check for < 3 and write that
>> we expect 4 in the error message. It could be argued that we should say that
>> we expect "3 or more" fields but given the age of the change we clearly do
>> expect 4 at this point.
>
> I disagree with making this error message lie about what the test was.
> Clearly we need to s/3, 1/1, 3/ but I don't think the number should
> be different from what we actually allow.
Fair enough.
> Having said that, maybe there's a case for requiring 4 columns now.
> I agree it's pretty unlikely that current releases would see a pre-9.4
> server on the other end of the line.
How about fixing the error message in the backbranches, with a comment why we
expect 3 and not 4 fields, and requiring 4 thus restricting to 9.4+ in HEAD?
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Daniel Gustafsson