On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:24 AM Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote: > That's not a completely crazy idea, it crossed my mind too. And since we > already decided to skip protocol number 3.1, how about we jump directly > to 3.4. That way: > > protocol | > version | PQProtocolVersion() > > 2 | 2 (in old unsupported library versions) > 3.0 | 3 > 3.4 | 4 > 3.5 | 5 > > and so forth. > > This kind of assumes we'll never bump the major protocol version again. > But if we do, we could jump to 40000 at that point.
I personally like this less than both (a) adding a new function and (b) redefining the existing function as Jelte proposes. It just seems too clever to me. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
