On 2014-02-10 17:35:12 -0600, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Wrong. You still need to have code that checks the server version and
> see if it's supported (particularly for sending) and as there is *no
> protocol negotiation of the formats at present it's all going to boil
> down to if version = X do Y*. How does the server know which
> 'versions' are ok to send? It doesn't. Follow along with me here:
> Suppose we don't introduce a version flag today and change the format
> to some more exotic structure for 9.5. How has the version flag made
> things easier for the client? It hasn't. The client goes "if version
> = X do Y".
think of binary COPY outputting data in 9.4 and then trying to import
that data into 9.5. That's the interesting case here.
> What about them? Are we now, at the
> upteenth hour of the final commit fest, suddenly deciding that binary
> wire formats going to be compatible across versions?
It has been a concern before.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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