On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 09:37:54AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> Not having thought about it in much detail, but it's a fairly common
>> scenario to have a much newer version of libpq (and the platform it's
>> built on) than the server. E.g. a v12 libpq against a v9.6 postgres
>> server is very common. For example, debian based systems will
>> auto-upgrade your libpq, but not your server (for obvious reasons).
>> And it's also quite common to upgrade platforms for the application
>> much more frequently than the database server platform.
>
> Yeah, there's a reason why we expect pg_dump and psql to function with
> ancient server versions. We shouldn't break this scenario with
> careless rejiggering of libpq's connection defaults.
Good points. Let's not do that then.
--
Michael
