On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote:
> It seems somewhere between 8.2.13 and 8.2.18, an behavior change was
> made. According to a someone who were inspecting this, the change was
> precisely made between 8.2.14 and 8.2.15. I couldn't find related
> item in HISTORY of 8.2.15.
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20091202174139.F380E753FB7%40cvs.postgresql.org
> Does anybody know if this change was
> intentional? If so, why?
Yes, it's intentional. It's for preventing 9.0 or later libpq from
causing useless
connection failures when connecting to the old servers.
Regards,
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Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center