Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org> writes:
> Keep in mind that the current
> FE/BE protocol limits database and user names to 64 characters.
That seems to be a good reason to combine the two on the postmaster
side, a la Bruce's proposed patch. If the client side does it then
the "user@database" has to all fit in 64 characters.
> That's another thing I'd like to fix in 7.4.
Yup. Do we have a list going of the things we want to fix in the next
protocol change? Offhand I remember
* redesign startup packet to eliminate fixed field widths
* fix COPY protocol to allow resync after errors, support binary data
* less brain-dead protocol for fast-path function calls
* allow NOTIFY to include parameters
* richer ERROR reports (error codes, other stuff)
and I'm sure there's more. None of this stuff seems to be in the TODO
list though.
regards, tom lane
