Re: PostgreSQL 12 release notes missing breaking change in libpq - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: PostgreSQL 12 release notes missing breaking change in libpq
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Msg-id 20191017013310.GC5605@paquier.xyz
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In response to PostgreSQL 12 release notes missing breaking change in libpq  (PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL 12 release notes missing breaking change in libpq  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 01:12:36PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> In PostgreSQL 12, libpq's parsing of connection string integer parameters
> was made more strict, such that invalid values now result in an error rather
> than being silently ignored:
> https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/e7a2217978d9cbb2149bfcb4ef1e45716cfcbefb
>
> This change resulted in runtime errors/crashes for some of our customers
> after we upgraded the Heroku stack images to use v12 of the PostgreSQL
> client libs.
>
> We had checked the release notes, but it's not currently mentioned:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/release-12.html
>
> Please could it be added?

I think it makes sense to mention that.  Bruce, why not adding an item
about that in the "Migration to Version 12" section?  Was that
intentionally left out?
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Michael

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