On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I unfortunately have to say I don't really see the point of this. The
> cost of the additional connection attempt is rather low and we have to
> deal with the superflous attempts anyway since there will be old libpqs
> around for years. Why is this worth the effort?
I have always considered this a wart, and I think we've had customers
complain about these kinds of things, too. So +1 from me for fixing
it. If not everyone updates their client to take advantage of the new
APIs, so be it. If psql and pgAdmin do, it'll solve 90% of the
problem.
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Robert Haas
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