On Sat, 2023-03-25 at 19:58 -0400, Dave Cramer wrote: > Well that means that connection poolers have to all be fixed. There > are more than just pgbouncer. > Seems rather harsh that a new feature breaks a connection pooler or > makes the pooler unusable.
Would it actually break connection poolers as they are now? Or would, for example, pgbouncer just not set the binary_format parameter on the outbound connection, and therefore just return everything as text until they add support to configure it?
Well I was presuming that they would just pass the parameter on. If they didn't then binary_format won't work with them. In the case that they do pass it on, then DISCARD_ALL will reset it and future borrows of the connection will have no way to set it again; effectively making this a one time setting.
So while it may not break them it doesn't seem like it is a very useful solution.
