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From Jacob Champion
Subject Re: libpq: Bump protocol version to version 3.2 at least until the first/second beta
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In response to Re: libpq: Bump protocol version to version 3.2 at least until the first/second beta  (Jelte Fennema-Nio <me@jeltef.nl>)
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM Jelte Fennema-Nio <me@jeltef.nl> wrote:
> I quite like that idea! Although maybe not 7FFF, but 270F so that
> PQfullProtocolVersion returns 39999.

+1

> And I think it'd be good to also
> add a protocol option, like _pq_.test_protocol_breakage and fail the
> connection attempt client side if that does not get returned back as
> unsupported.

Yeah, I feel better signing on to a plan like this if we think the
breakage is likely to lead to a comprehensive fix for
NegotiateProtocolVersion (as opposed to "we greased this thing in 2025
and now this thing in 2026 and now...").

Thanks,
--Jacob

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