On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 09:37:54AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander <mag...@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
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