>> [...]
>
> I agree that these two behaviors in libpq are dubious, especially the
> second one. I want to spend some time analyzing this more and see if
> fixes in libpq might be appropriate.
Ok.
My analysis is that fixing libpq behavior is not in the scope of a psql
patch, and that if I was to do that it was sure delay the patch even
further. Also these issues/features are corner cases that provably very
few people bumped into.
--
Fabien.