Re: Clarification on warning when connecting to 'pgbouncer' database via Pgbouncer - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> psql has zero awareness of pgbouncer or any other non-PostgreSQL server you
> might be able to point it to and establish a successful connection.  The
> lack of a warning previously is probably more incorrect than its presence
> now.

Yeah.  I'd say the fundamental problem is that pgbouncer is abusing
the server_version parameter, which will break plenty of things
besides psql --- pg_dump for instance, and just about any other
application that needs to adjust its queries to suit different
Postgres server versions.  If they feel a need to advertise
pgbouncer's version there, it wouldn't be that hard to make
server_version read out as something like "17.5 (pgbouncer XX.YY)",
which would not confuse libpq/psql (cf. parsing code in
pqSaveParameterStatus).  But apparently they didn't do that.

Anyway, I'm minus quite a lot on silencing this warning, because
it is telling you about real problems you are likely to hit.

            regards, tom lane